On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, at 16:32, Chris Elvidge wrote: > "New Zealand" isn't in the timezone list so date doesn't understand it.
Sure, but date also doesn't treat it as invalid: $ TZ=America/New_Yorkk src/date Thu 19 Sep 23:50:55 America 2024 $ TZ=America/New_Yorkk src/date --debug src/date: output format: ‘%a %e %b %H:%M:%S %Z %Y’ Thu 19 Sep 23:50:58 America 2024 $ TZ=America/New_Yorkk src/date --debug -d now date: parsed relative part: today/this/now date: input timezone: TZ="America/New_Yorkk" environment value date: using current time as starting value: '23:51:10' date: using current date as starting value: '(Y-M-D) 2024-09-19' date: starting date/time: '(Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10' date: '(Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10' = 1726789870 epoch-seconds date: timezone: TZ="America/New_Yorkk" environment value date: final: 1726789870.496873414 (epoch-seconds) date: final: (Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10 (UTC) date: final: (Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10 (UTC+00) src/date: output format: ‘%a %e %b %H:%M:%S %Z %Y’ Thu 19 Sep 23:51:10 America 2024 There's no indication, even in debug mode, that there's a typo in the TZ value. Cheers, Phil
