On 2020-11-24, John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote: > rhkramer writes: >> To find out the time in some other time zone, I find it convenient to >> just google [time in <name of place>] (e.g., time in China). > > "TZ=<time zone> date" is quicker. "date -d 'time and date in other timezone'" > converts a given time and date to local time and date.
I have a problem: curty@einstein:~$ TZ=EST date Tue Nov 24 11:43:42 EST 2020 curty@einstein:~$ TZ=PST date Tue Nov 24 16:43:54 PST 2020 However, curty@einstein:~$ TZ=":America/Los_Angeles" date Tue Nov 24 08:40:42 PST 2020 And yet, curty@einstein:~$ TZ=":America/San_Francisco" date Tue Nov 24 16:42:03 America 2020
