On 2/17/21 1:57 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > SO from the man page on date I can do > > current=`TZ=":America/Indianapolis" date` > echo $current > current=`TZ=":America/Los_Angeles" date ` > echo $current > > And I get correct data. LA is 3 hours earlier. But doing this: > > current=`TZ=":America/Indianapolis" date +%s` > echo $current > current=`TZ=":America/Los_Angeles" date +%s` > echo $current > > I get the same data - its not 3 hours different. > > What am I not doing correct ? > > Thanks, > > Jerry
Per the date(1) man page, %s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC Thus,%s is independent of the timezone....relative to UTC. And you don't need any of those double-quotes. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
