Re: Looking for clock track different times?
Quoting Jonathan Gift (jgift@wanadoo.fr):
> David Wright wrote:
> >
> > > I looked but apart from twclock I couldn'rt find anything. Anyone know
> > > of an applet capable of showing times in different places?
> >
> > It might help to say what it is about twclock that you don't like.
> >
> > TZ=US/Eastern swisswatch &
>
> I don't need another analog clock. I'd really like to type the
> date/time at the prompt and get Eastern Standard time, or Pacific, etc.
> I'm now on European. So I don't wake people up...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> I looked at the date switches but saw nothing. Thinking about a shell
> script to cut the time, substract 9, etc. seemed there has to be
> simpler.
I'm not sure how you parsed my suggestion above, but all it needs is:
TZ=US/Eastern date
^^^^-that's the normal date command.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^_
as before, that's the timezone you want to be local.
More briefly yet, TZ=EST date, if you're happy with this style of
zone names.
Cheers,
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