Re: [CentOS] Date question

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.