Time stamp is off

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 6/19/23 15:30, R. H. van der Gaag wrote:
> On 19 Jun 2023, at 18:46, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/19/23 09:36, R. H. van der Gaag wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?

Sync has been the problem for me. But if you're not seeing a problem, I 
wouldn't worry about it.

Riki