On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> 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 > Communication of time values should use UTC, not a specific time zone, unless the remote side needs to know the time zone for a specific reason. To get the time in a different zone, use the TZ environment var: TZ=UTC date ~ Brian Mathis @orev