Hi Paul,
You are right, I was thinking of it checking the timezone db to see
what timezone I'm in when I'm actually specifying it in the date
itself.....
Your 2nd suggestion is excellent, I didn't think of doing it that
way.....
Duh !! lateral thinking
Thanks
Paul Eggert wrote:
>
> "MUTTON, PETER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > #> /usr/local/bin/date -u -d "Sat Apr 3 16:42:28 EDT 2004"
> > Sat Apr 3 20:42:28 UTC 2004
> >
> > ^^ should be 21 as we moved to Daylight Saving time
> > on Apr 4
>
> I don't see any bug there. The -d operand specifies EDT, so GNU date
> assumes that you meant Eastern Daylight Time.
>
> Here's how to get the behavior that you prefer:
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/date -u -d "Sat Apr 3 16:42:28 EST 2004"
> Sat Apr 3 21:42:28 UTC 2004
>
> Or better yet, since alphabetic time zone abbreviations aren't
> standardized:
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/date -u -d "Sat Apr 3 16:42:28 -0500 2004"
> Sat Apr 3 21:42:28 UTC 2004
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