[SOLVED] CEST Timezone?

GazL · 10-08-2016, 06:35 AM

Code:

test@ws1:~$ TZ=UTC date
Sat  8 Oct 11:32:46 UTC 2016
test@ws1:~$ TZ=CET date
Sat  8 Oct 13:32:51 CEST 2016
test@ws1:~$ TZ=CEST date
Sat  8 Oct 11:33:02 CEST 2016

Anyone?

edit:

Code:

test@ws1:~$ TZ=WIBBLE date
Sat  8 Oct 11:38:29 WIBBLE 2016

lol. I guess it just does something stupid if it doesn't recognise the TZ, though why it doesn't recognise CEST is a little odd.

michaelk · 10-08-2016, 08:18 AM

CEST is not a timezone. It is the designation(bad terminology?) for CET during daylight saving time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ase_time_zones

jmccue · 10-08-2016, 10:47 AM

I usually set TZ equal to a file under /usr/share/zoneinfo, example:

Code:

% date
Sat Oct  8 11:44:28 EDT 2016
% setenv TZ /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
% date
Sat Oct  8 10:44:35 CDT 2016

John

GazL · 10-08-2016, 10:50 AM

Ahh, thankyou. I was under the mistaken idea that CET would give you non-dst time and CEST would give you the time with the dst adjustment applied, and the fact that 'date' was silently ignoring the undefined TZ value didn't help.