Tuesday, 2005-08-30

Date in another timezone

Cool hack in Unix: if you know the zonefile abbreviation for a timezone, you can use it to get the date there:

$ TZ=PST8PDT date
Tue Aug 30 05:07:39 PDT 2005

This also works: 

$ TZ=America/Los_Angeles date
Tue Aug 30 05:08:17 PDT 2005

Timezone files are in /usr/share/zoneinfo on OpenBSD and Linux.

Posted at 14:09, in the comp category.