On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 01:57:50PM -0500, 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 ?
Check the man page for 'date'.
%s is "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC". Regardless of the time
zone, the time in LA will still be the same number of seconds since
Midnight, January 1st, 1970 in UTC as it was in Indianapolis.
--
Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx>
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