glibc-2.14.1-3 broke time display for me. It displays UTC regardless of /etc/localtime or TZ environment variable. Downgrading fixed it again. # date Sun Dec 18 09:35:36 UTC 2011 # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Dec 1 20:02 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels # TZ=Europe/Brussels date Sun Dec 18 09:35:41 Europe 2011 # TZ=CET date Sun Dec 18 09:35:45 CET 2011 # TZ=foobar date Sun Dec 18 09:35:49 foobar 2011 # pacman -S glibc warning: downgrading package glibc (2.14.1-3 => 2.14.1-2) [...] # date Sun Dec 18 10:36:09 CET 2011 Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert@xxxxxxxxxxxx :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!