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Re: which TZ timezones does date command recognize?


Teun Burgers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> date displays the time with a 2 hour offset on my system.
> So I should set my TZ environment variable,
> as adviced in an older e-mail
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg00463.html
> 
> The example there says export TZ=EST5EDT.
> 
> This does indeed work as expected. However
> I am in MET (Amsterdam), but TZ=MET does not
> work. How can I found out which timezones
> date recognizes?
> 

By doing some research using Google.com I found that TZ=MET-1DST works.

Earnie.

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