From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 21:18:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA24650 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24632 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA03134; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:47:23 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.6/8.6.12) id NAA08639; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:47:22 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199708010417.NAA08639@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: date(1) In-Reply-To: <199708010415.VAA13820@kithrup.com> from Sean Eric Fagan at "Jul 31, 97 09:15:09 pm" To: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:47:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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