On Tue, April 4, 2017 21:22, Jerry Geis wrote:

When I do the date +%Z I get the timezone. Which currently is EDT.

I am sending information to another system, that says EDT is not a valid timezone. I have no way to modify the other system.

My question is - is there a way to get the non-day-lite savings time zone ? For example EST is valid - EDT is not.

date -u Wed Apr 5 20:18:45 UTC 2017