My understanding in the last email is wrong. So +02:00 in your example is actually -0200 in my example, can date take the meaning "+" as in my original example? Or I will have to flip the signs myself?
$ TZ=Europe/Paris date Thu May 16 15:27:48 CEST 2024 $ TZ='XXX+02:00' date Thu May 16 11:28:06 XXX 2024 On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 8:24 AM Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 12:04 AM Grisha Levit <grishale...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 14 2024 at 16:05 Peng Yu wrote: > > > For example, in the time zone represented by +0100, how to get its > > > current time from date using '+0100' as input? Thanks. > > > > Use the offset to create a timezone specification, supplied in the TZ > > environment variable. > > > > TZ='XXX-01:00' date > > Strings like +0100 is relative to UTC. For example, +0100 is Central > European Time. I guess that you understood +0100 as relative to my > current timezone. > > How to achieve +0100 as relative to UTC with date? > > > The `XXX` is an arbitrary (required) name. Note that the sign of the > > offset has the opposite of its usual meaning. The full format can be > > found in the tzset(3) man page. > > -- > Regards, > Peng -- Regards, Peng
