Display the date and time from another time zone

lothario · 07-31-2004, 06:05 AM

I am using Red Hat 9
I am in the PDT time zone.
The date command displays the current date and time correctly.

Once a week, I need to display the current date and time in the CDT time zone.

Can the date command be used to display the current date and time in the CDT time zone?

If yes, how?

If no, is there another way?

320mb · 07-31-2004, 09:20 AM

in a term window, you should be able to type this...........

tzselect

and answer a few questions.

homey · 07-31-2004, 10:48 AM

I found a neat little script here which seems easy enough. I added the date command at the bottom so it would display the date and zone which you selected.
like so....

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Created by Ben Okopnik on Wed Nov 21 23:06:09 EST 2001
# Links '/etc/localtime' to appropriate TZ

[ $UID -gt 0 ] && { printf "You need to be root.\n"; exit; }

cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/US

PS3="Please select a timezone: "
select tz in *
do
	[ "$tz" = "" ] && {
		printf "Invalid choice; timezone not set.\n"
		exit
	}

	ln -sf $PWD/$tz /etc/localtime
	printf "The timezone is now US/$tz.\n"
	date
	exit
done

lothario · 07-31-2004, 01:49 PM

Thank you for the suggestions.

I just found out that the zdump command does the trick.

In my case it would be:
zdump America/Chicago

homey · 07-31-2004, 03:27 PM

Quote:

I just found out that the zdump command does the trick.

Every time I learn something, I'm told that makes a new wrinkle in the brain. And when you get old enough, they start to show on your face. Thanks for the new wrinkle.