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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers While we are on the subject of dates. Another date question Post 42229 by MizzGail on Friday 24th of October 2003 07:54:29 AM
Old 10-24-2003
There is a time command that will feed back elapsed and system times.
The format to use in a script would be like:
(time command ) > filename.time 2>&1

You will see output like
real 10.5
user 0.3
sys 3.6

in the filename.time file...

check the man pages for time command.
 

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ZDUMP(8)						    Linux System Administration 						  ZDUMP(8)

NAME
zdump - timezone dumper SYNOPSIS
zdump [ --version ] [ --help ] [ -v ] [ -c [loyear,]hiyear ] [ zonename ... ] DESCRIPTION
Zdump prints the current time in each zonename named on the command line. These options are available: --version Output version information and exit. --help Output short usage and exit. -v For each zonename on the command line, print the time at the lowest possible time value, the time one day after the lowest possible time value, the times both one second before and exactly at each detected time discontinuity, the time at one day less than the highest possible time value, and the time at the highest possible time value. Each line ends with isdst=1 if the given time is Day- light Saving Time or isdst=0 otherwise. -c [loyear,]hiyear Cut off the verbose output near the start of the given year(s). The output still includes the lowest possible time value and one day after it, and the highest possible time value preceded by the time value one day before it. SEE ALSO
tzfile(5), zic(8) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2013-02-12 ZDUMP(8)
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