[SWLUG] using 'date' with british summer time

[bascule]

aha, gotcha!

cheers
bascule

On Friday 28 Nov 2003 9:26 am, Dick Porter wrote:
> > anyway you mention:
> > TZ=GMT date
> > if you mean %T   time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
> > well i avoided this to avoid the ':' which are illegal in fat16/32, i
> > share some of my pics with others :)
>
> No, this is setting the TZ environment variable for the duration of the
> date command.
>
> eg:
>
> [dick at hagbard ~] [ 9:20]
>
> :; TZ=GMT date
>
> Fri Nov 28 09:20:55 GMT 2003

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