bug#7997: Feature request for date command
For date input (using --date=STRING) you can use the TZ variable to specify the input timezone. Here is an example. $ date -R --date='TZ="Europe/Rome" 2004-10-31 06:30' Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:30:00 -0600 $ TZ="America/New_York" date -R --date='TZ="Europe/Paris" 2004-10-31 06:30' Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:30:00 -0400 That does the job, but it is not documented in the manual. Could you document it, and add these examples? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
bug#7997: Feature request for date command
Richard Stallman wrote: > It should be possible to specify a timezone such as > Europe/Rome for the date input. That works in TZ > to control the output, so it should work in the input too. For date input (using --date=STRING) you can use the TZ variable to specify the input timezone. Here is an example. $ date -R --date='TZ="Europe/Rome" 2004-10-31 06:30' Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:30:00 -0600 That produced an answer in my local timezone of US/Central. This is useful for converting dates. Here is another example. $ TZ="America/New_York" date -R --date='TZ="Europe/Paris" 2004-10-31 06:30' Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:30:00 -0400 That converted a datestamp from Europe/Paris to America/New_York. Does this help? Bob
bug#7997: Feature request for date command
It should be possible to specify a timezone such as Europe/Rome for the date input. That works in TZ to control the output, so it should work in the input too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org