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I wanted to know what time it was in UTC, but I forgot my local offset. (It changes twice a year!) I figured I could look in the date man page, but I came up with an “easier” solution. Simply fudge the time zone and then ask.
0-20:57 djh@noneedto ~$ env TZ=UTC date Tue May 6 03:57:07 UTC 2008
The env bit is not needed in bash, but it makes tcsh happy.
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dbt
env TZ= date works just as well, without needing to be undone…
dannyman
(Thanks, dbt . . . this post just got a lot shorter. ;)
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