Time stamp is off

[R. H. van der Gaag]

On 19 Jun 2023, at 18:46, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/19/23 09:36, R. H. van der Gaag wrote:
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>> Thanks for checking. Insert date gives the correct (Dutch) time here, too. But the time stamps added to the LaTeX preview are always exactly two hours behind. A riddle.
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> Two hours behind sounds like UCT (GMT). European time is one hour ahead but then another hour for daylight savings. I suspect that your system clock is set for UCT, which is what LaTeX is picking up.
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> I've had similar problems on a Windows system.

My macOS preferences say "Central European Summer Time" and in the terminal I get

 rh at iMac ~ % date
 Mon Jun 19 21:27:10 CEST 2023

It remains a mystery, then, where LyX or LaTeX gets its UCT/GMT time from. Should I worry about this possibly messing up sync?