[texworks] MiKTeX 2.9 forces UTC on Windows 7

[Mark Yagnatinsky]

That's truly bizarre, but that also doesn't sound like it has anything to
do with TexWorks.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Hackenburg, Robert <hack at bnl.gov> wrote:

> I just installed MiKTeX 2.9 on my machine, after my IT people installed
> Windows 7 (long story why they aren’t ready for 10 yet…).
>
> All is well, but there is some time zone setting it’s using which is not
> what I have in the system.  All times come out in UTC, five hours later
> than my EST zone.  Here’s a stripped down minimal example:
>
>
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \newcounter{hrs}
>
> \setcounter{hrs}{\time}
>
> \divide \value{hrs} by 60
>
> \def\HH{\thehrs}
>
> \HH
>
> \end{document}
>
>
>
> This should print out the hour, which at the moment is 12 (EST), but
> instead I get 17 (UTC).
>
>
>
>             Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>
>
>             Cheers,
>
>             Bob Hackenburg, BNL
>
> ----- configuration info -----
> TeXworks version : 0.4.6r.c29723a (MiKTeX 2.9)
> Install location : C:/Program Files (x86)/MiKTeX
> 2.9/miktex/bin/miktex-texworks.exe
> Library path     : C:/Users/hack.000/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/TeXworks/0.4\
> pdfTeX location  : C:/Program Files (x86)/MiKTeX 2.9/miktex/bin/pdftex.exe
> Operating system : Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit, Service Pack 1, build
> 7601
> Qt version      : 5.5.1 (build) / 5.5.1 (runtime)
> ------------------------------
>
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