topic Shell script to check time in Operating System - HP-UX

Shell script to check time

yihwen — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:20:19 GMT

Anyone out there know or have a sample shell script code written in bash to check the time of other countries? I been looking through the zoneinfo under
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo but didnt managed to work out.
Hope someone can help me out with this. Thanks

Re: Shell script to check time

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:09:09 GMT

HI

Have a look at /usr/lib/tztab.

Man tztab

Paula

Re: Shell script to check time

Darrell Allen — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:24:36 GMT

As Paula points out, tztab is a list of timezones. Simply set TZ to the desired timezone and then use the date command. You will have to figure out what timezone goes with which country.

Darrell

Re: Shell script to check time

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:19:27 GMT

Hi:

As already pointed out, the definition of the world's various timezones are found in '/usr/lib/tztab'.

If you merely want to find out the date and time for a timezone other than yours, do this:

# date # ...gives your local date and time

To determine what time it is in Moscow, I note from 'usr/lib/tztab' that the timezone should be 'WST-3WSTDST'. Thus:

# TZ=WST-3WSTDST date

..will return Moscow's current time.

Note that I only reset the TZ variable for the duration of the command line. Note the blank (space) between the TZ setting and the 'date' command.

Regards!

...JRF...