Use timedatectl from systemd to set and check the timezone. timedatectl set-timezone $TIMEZONE to set timedatectl list-timezone to list timedatectl status to check I also suggest to check the time writen in time & date header just in case it is wrong. Regards Marc Pervaz Boocha On Wednesday, 28 April, 2021 7:17:30 PM IST matthew dyer via arch-general wrote: > Good morning all, > > I am using the latest thunderbird under arch linux and have an announce I > would like to get resolved. In the message list, orca speaks the time and > date header as if my time zone were 4 hours hours ahead. My time zone is > set to America/New_York. Everything else shows up and works fine but orca > reads time stamps differently Is there a way to fix this. This is very > strange and have not seen this before. All of my locales are set to > en_US.UTF-8. Thanks. > > Matthew