.htaccess problem

[woodyl]

I wanted to correct the timezone for my site. Right now, the default time zone for the server appears to be Chicago/Central time.

I edited my .htacess files to add this as the first line:
SetEnv TZ America/New_York

The problem is that when I test the time, it still shows the time zone is America/Chicago

I found 2 different .htaccess files in my account:

/public_html
/public_html/_private

Both of these have the edited TZ setting.

So, can anybody tell me why this isn't working?

[garrettroyce]

I believe this is a server wide setting and anything you set in your htaccess is overridden by the highest level htaccess.

[woodyl]

So, is there some way to set the correct TZ for my domain? It's a nuisance having it perpetually 1 hour off. How do other people deal with this?

[garrettroyce]

there are functions out there to manipulate date/time strings. You can add/subtract hours to make the printed time in the correct time zone.