Shell Programming and Scripting

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???

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"

thanks worked perfectly