Re: [sheflug] Help with timezones (values of TZ) andsummer (daylight savings) time.

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 18:35 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 14:28, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > Looks like you're a loser at the Unix game:
> 
> ?!

It sounded to me like you'd been wasting time wibbling around with
something which should "just work".

Whenever this happens to me, it's usually something old and baroque
getting in my way....

> > alex [at] ubuntu ~ $ TZ=America/New_York date
> > Tue Apr 18 09:26:13 EDT 2006
> 
> That looks like exactly the solution I want!  Where is there a list of 
> possible TZ values?

On my system, /usr/share/zoneinfo - the TZ value is just a filename
relative to that directory, if that makes sense.

I'm sure there is an online list or something, but I would hesitate to
say how up-to-date each distributions list would be. If you stick to
continents and capitals/major cities, you'll probably be ok.

Cheers,

Alex.


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