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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Timezone in +/-HHMM format Post 302165610 by adderek on Friday 8th of February 2008 09:33:10 AM
Old 02-08-2008
$ /opt/exp/gnu/bin/date +%z
-0500
$ /opt/exp/gnu/bin/date +%Z
EST

Make sure you are using GNU date.
 

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tzselect(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      tzselect(1M)

NAME
tzselect - select a time zone SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/tzselect DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks you a series of questions about the current location and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable. All user interaction is through standard input and standard error. OPTIONS
The tzselect command has no options. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Timezone information was successfully obtained. >0 An error occurred. FILES
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directory containing timezone data files ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
zdump(1M), zic(1M), ctime(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2001 tzselect(1M)
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