Fri, 03 Nov 2006

Back from the abyss

At last week's CLUG meeting Steve pointed at this blog, and the lack of activity, and berrated me for being so slack.

So I'm inventing stuff to blog about.

Occaisonally I need to know what time it is in another timezone. This is pretty easy with date, eg

$ TZ=Europe/Rome date -R
Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:24:39 +0100

I discovered the other day that date can do some cool stuff. Say you know the time in Rome, and you'd like to know the time in Tokyo, all without leaving the east cost of Australia.

$ TZ=Asia/Tokyo date --date='TZ="Europe/Rome" 11:31pm' -R
Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:31:00 +0900

Yet to determine if I'll use this in day to day life but I think it's pretty cute :), and not too hard to remember either.

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