Changing the date to EST

#1 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006

Hi,

The unix box has a system date in the PDT time zone format..if i need to capture the value of the date in a variable id do this:
orderdate=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
ordertime=`date '+%H%M%S'`

output :
$orderdate= 20060714
$ordertime= 043438

I need to convert and store this orderdate and ordertime to EST format.Is there any functions that let me get the EST timezone value instead of jst adding 3 hours???

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006

The environment variable TZ can be used to change the timezone temporarily
I'm assuming you are in the Pacific timezone (TZ="PST8PDT") in this code snippet:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
oldTZ="$TZ"
export TZ="EST5EDT"
orderdate=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
ordertime=`date '+%H%M%S'`
export TZ="$oldTZ"

#3 (**permalink**) 07-17-2006

thanks worked perfectly

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