On Sun 04 Feb 2018 at 18:45:16 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > David Wright (2018-02-04): > > $ TZ=London date > > Sun Feb 4 17:17:56 London 2018 > > $ TZ=UtterNonsense date > Sun Feb 4 17:44:00 UtterNonsense 2018 > > The fact that it printed the name you put and not the official name of > the time zone shows that the value is invalid. The correct value would > have been: > > $ TZ=Europe/London date > Sun Feb 4 17:44:49 GMT 2018
Which goes to show how fragile relying on a TZ that doesn't originate from a legitimate source, of course. Which is why I have $ ls -l .timezone lrwxrwxrwx 1 david david 13 Jan 22 20:44 .timezone -> /etc/timezone $ and export TZ=$(cat $HOME/.timezone) in my startup files. Oh, and also a whattime function which is a little more careful: $ whattime london Europe/London 2018-02-04 18:32:45 +0000 Sunday $ whattime auckland Pacific/Auckland 2018-02-05 07:33:04 +1300 Monday $ Cheers, David.
