On 15 Oct 2020, g00r00 said the following...
 
 g0>  Al> I just updated to the current prealpha and messages seem to get a TZU
 g0>  Al> kludge t hat says 0000, and the time stamp of messages seems to be us
 g0>  Al> UTC time. Is it supposed to work that way?

 g0> Its pulling that information from your system settings (or should be).
 g0> 
 g0> Check that /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone are set correctly and we can
 g0> go from there

I don't have an /etc/timezone, never did that I know of. I do have an
/etc/localtime and it is set to Pacific Daylight Time or America/Vancouver.

The date command says the time is currently Thu Oct 15 00:55:10 PDT 2020. My
timestamp will be +7 hours I think.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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