[CentOS] Timezone and date

ken gebser at mousecar.com
Wed Apr 5 02:57:39 UTC 2017


On 04/04/2017 09:22 PM, 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.
>
> Just curious if there is an easy way already present to get a standard time
> zone.
>
> Thanks, - I know weird situation the other end not supported EDT.
>
>
> Jerry
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"man date" shows a few options:

>        %z     +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400)
>
>        %:z    +hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00)
>
>        %::z   +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
>
>        %:::z  numeric  time  zone  with  :  to  necessary precision 
> (e.g., -04,
>               +05:30)
>
>        %Z     alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

That is, perhaps the "other system" wants some kind of numeric 
representation.  Without knowing the recipient app on that other system, 
this is just a guess.




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