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.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 1:57 PM Jerry Geis jerry.geis@gmail.com 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

Hi All - I did figure this out. I was close the first time - but just not right.

FROM_DATE_TIME=`TZ="America/Los_Angeles" date --date '120 sec ago' +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'` TO_DATE_TIME=`TZ="$America/Los_Angeles" date --date '1 sec ago' +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`

and my server is set for Indianapolis time. The above worked. Thanks!

Jerry