current-time-string -- Wrong time zone???

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From: Ken Mayer
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 17:11

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A picture is worth a thousand bug reports...

nsx% echo $TZ
TZ: Undefined variable.
nsx% date 
Mon Apr 29 17:08:27 GMT 1991
nsx% setenv TZ EST5EDT
nsx% date
Mon Apr 29 13:08:34 EDT 1991

(eval (current-time-string)) --> Mon Apr 29 10:09:38 1991

So why does emacs think I'm living on the west coast?

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