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Re: GMT to Normal Time



On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:51:31AM -0500, Paul T.McNally wrote:
> Is there anyway I can get my clock to reflect the time I live in? I
> thought it would be cool to have my time set to GMT, but there are lots
> of little things I need to reflect the time I know.

ivey@ivey:~$ date
Thursday Aug 31 15:01:39 UTC 2000
ivey@ivey:~$ TZ="EST5EDT" date
Thursday Aug 31 11:01:45 EDT 2000

use the TZ environment variable to specify the time zone for the apps that
need to know local time.

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