On 2/17/21 1:57 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> SO from the man page on date I can do
>
> current=`TZ=":America/Indianapolis" date`
> echo $current
> current=`TZ=":America/Los_Angeles" date `
> echo $current
>
> And I get correct data. LA is 3 hours earlier. But doing this:
>
> current=`TZ=":America/Indianapolis" date +%s`
> echo $current
> current=`TZ=":America/Los_Angeles" date +%s`
> echo $current
>
> I get the same data - its not 3 hours different.
>
> What am I not doing correct ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
Per the date(1) man page,
%s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Thus,%s is independent of the timezone....relative to UTC.
And you don't need any of those double-quotes.
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