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date-time: Note that setting timezone does not set the time.
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export TZ=<timezone>
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Note that setting the *timezone* does not set the *time* (or date); instead, it
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simply specifies an offset from
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[UTC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time), as described in
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[timezone(3)](https://man.voidlinux.org/timezone.3).
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## Hardware clock
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By default, the hardware clock in Void is stored as UTC. Windows does not use

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