Re: date command time correction

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 08/29/03

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    In article <16562f2d.0308290755.8c81dfa@posting.google.com>,
    Tom Lepkowski <tlep@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
    >[me@server home]$ date
    >Fri Aug 29 15:50:01 UTC 2003
    >
    >I need date to print "Fri Aug 29 11:50:01 EDT 2003"

    The default time zone is controlled by the TZ environment variable, so you
    can change it temporarily while executing the command:

    TZ=US/Eastern date

    >So, besides formatting (which I can do) I need to subtract 6 hours.

    You mean 4 hours. 

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