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Re: Cygwin date displays only GMT on Win7


On Jul  8 20:41, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Siv wrote:
> > 
> > date --date='TZ="ANYTHING" isn't working as expected
> > Thanx. Anyway the last 2 cmds worked :
> > 
> > date                                      Wed, Jul 08, 2015  2:03:12 PM
> > date -u                                   Wed, Jul 08, 2015  2:03:13 PM
> > date --date='TZ="Asia/Delhi"'             Wed, Jul 08, 2015 12:00:00 AM

> > date --date='TZ="Asia/Calcutta"'          Tue, Jul 07, 2015  6:30:00 PM
> > date --date='TZ="Asia/Kolkata"'           Tue, Jul 07, 2015  6:30:00 PM
> > TZ=Asia/Delhi date                        Wed, Jul 08, 2015  2:03:14 PM
> > TZ=Asia/Kolkata date                      Wed, Jul 08, 2015  7:33:15 PM
> > TZ=Asia/Calcutta date                     Wed, Jul 08, 2015  7:33:15 PM
> > 
> 
> As expected?? 
> Where did you get this --date='TZ=..." syntax?? Not anywhere I could find.
> 
> --date=STRING
> 
> Read the man page.
> 
> STRING works like this:
> 
> $ date
> Wed Jul  8 16:38:44 EDT 2015
> $ date --date=Thursday
> Thu Jul  9 00:00:00 EDT 2015
> $ date --date="last Monday"
> Mon Jul  6 00:00:00 EDT 2015
> $ date --date="25 dec 2016"
> Sun Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2016
> $
> 
> --Ken Nellis

Also, Asia/Delhi is not a valid timezone.


Corinna

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