Re: [CentOS] Date question

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.