Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is probably all correct behavior as it is right now (coreutils 6.9): > > $ date +%s > 1204311113 > $ TZ=GMT date +%s > 1204311113 > $ TZ=PDT date +%s > 1204311113
%s is defined as "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC" which obviously is a constant at any given time throughout the world. > but is there actually a way to do > > $ TZ=anything date +%s -d "`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`"; > > without invoking date twice? Please explain what you are trying to achieve. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
