Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:25:41 +0100 From: Shaun Friedle <shaun@insipidity.co.uk> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: timezone command Message-ID: <1082150741.280.13.camel@Shaun> In-Reply-To: <20040416161750.GA33400@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040416050053.GA52342@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGGEBBFMAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> <20040416161750.GA33400@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:17, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> You can do it very easily with perl:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use POSIX (strftime);
>
> ($d = strftime("%z", localtime)) =~ s/(\d\d)(\d\d)/$1:$2/;
>
> print "$d\n";
>
> but it's probably a bit too heavyweight to use perl to format the
> string if you aren't already writing a whole script in perl. Instead,
> try:
>
> date +%z | sed -e 's,\([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\),\1:\2,'
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
Oops, didn't notice this because it was in a different thread. Well now
you have two Perl solutions :)
--
Shaun Friedle
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