Comments on: Linux / UNIX: display time of different time zones using TZ environment variable http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/date-command-set-tz-environment-variable.html This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Draciehttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/date-command-set-tz-environment-variable.html#comment-148061 Dracie Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:55:40 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/date-command-set-tz-environment-variable.html#comment-148061 why would you need to export it? Bash is a line by line shell interpreter, so you can just put the TZ variable before the program date. Like this: TZ=America/New_York date. This is a better solution if you just need to check the time difference real quick. If you are living in a different time zone in awhile just change your timezone in /etc/rc.conf or whichever file your *NIX distribution configures this sort of thing. The only time i had to export this variable is on my account on a shell server. It is based in Germany and I live in usa so I just had to put <code>export TZ=America/Chicago</code> in my .bashrc. Thanks, and have a good one why would you need to export it? Bash is a line by line shell interpreter, so you can just put the TZ variable before the program date. Like this: TZ=America/New_York date. This is a better solution if you just need to check the time difference real quick.

If you are living in a different time zone in awhile just change your timezone in /etc/rc.conf or whichever file your *NIX distribution configures this sort of thing.

The only time i had to export this variable is on my account on a shell server. It is based in Germany and I live in usa so I just had to put export TZ=America/Chicago in my .bashrc.

Thanks, and have a good one

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