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Re: How to get the current time in time zone represented by strings like
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Peng Yu |
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Re: How to get the current time in time zone represented by strings like +0100? |
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Thu, 16 May 2024 08:24:21 -0500 |
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 12:04 AM Grisha Levit <grishalevit@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 14 2024 at 16:05 Peng Yu wrote:
> > For example, in the time zone represented by +0100, how to get its
> > current time from date using '+0100' as input? Thanks.
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> Use the offset to create a timezone specification, supplied in the TZ
> environment variable.
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> TZ='XXX-01:00' date
Strings like +0100 is relative to UTC. For example, +0100 is Central
European Time. I guess that you understood +0100 as relative to my
current timezone.
How to achieve +0100 as relative to UTC with date?
> The `XXX` is an arbitrary (required) name. Note that the sign of the
> offset has the opposite of its usual meaning. The full format can be
> found in the tzset(3) man page.
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Regards,
Peng