On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 07:16:25AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > If you wreck this by putting the wrong timezone offset on your > human-readable times [...] If you lie about your time zone you might come in too late for your train :-) > In addition to that, a case has already been shown where your chosen > format, with or without a fixed timezone offset, is ambiguous -- it > could refer to two different times. This is an issue everywhere > daylight saving time is used. It's rare, but it's real. I'm still amazed the OP hasn't understood that "date" can output custom formats -- and that it's not always possible to parse back a date in some custom format into a meaningful timestamp. For an extreme case, just try date +"This is not a date" (with a tip o' the hat to René Magritte). For a less extreme example date +"%H:%M:%S" (I use that every minute in my digital clock display). Cheers -- t
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