Linux – Run an Application with a Different TimeZone

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I have an windows application (Under Wine) that only works when I change timezone to NewYork's TimeZone.
with Any other zone it doesn't start!!
So, Is it possible in Linux to run an application with different TimeZone than system configured TimeZone?

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04

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Generally, set the TZ environment variable:

TZ=America/New_York myapplication

I don't know if Wine has its own configuration in addition to or overriding the environment variable.

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a) start wine with a different TZ

One solution would be to simply start wine with a different timezone each time (you probably want to update the shortcut in your start menu for example) using:

TZ=Europe/Berlin wine

b) change the TZ in wine

The registry of wine lies in ~/.wine in the files system.reg (=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), user.reg (=HKEY_CURRENT_USER), userdef.reg (=HKEY_USERS) and is accessible by simply running regedit through wine (wine regedit).

The timezone key is in Local Machine -> SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones and can be set to any of the values that you see as directories at this place.

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As you surmise, you need to tell Wine where to display its applications. Since your Wine server has an X display, it's probably :0:

DISPLAY=:0 wine ...

should do the trick (assuming your X authentication cookies are OK; if they're not you'll get an Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error).

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