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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:47:22 +0930 (CST)
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject:   Re: date(1)
Message-ID:  <199708010417.NAA08639@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199708010415.VAA13820@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Jul 31, 97 09:15:09 pm"

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Sean Eric Fagan writes:
> In article <199708010239.MAA08318.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@freebie.lemis.com> you write:
>> Now here's an enhancement that I *would* like to see: specify a
>> timezone file to use.  Something like:
>>
>>  $ date -z /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo
>>
>> to give you the current time in Tokyo.
>
> You can already do that, using $TZ.
>
> E.g.,
>
> 	kithrup 1% date
> 	Thu Jul 31 21:11:01 PDT 1997
> 	kithrup 2% env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date
> 	Fri Aug  1 13:11:21 JST 1997

Just what I need.  Thanks!

Greg



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