James Wu wrote: > When I run the cmd "date", I get UTC time on a fresh boot of an imaged > machine. I'd like to find a way to set the time to "America/New_York" > for automatically via script. A reboot is ok if absolutely needed but > not preferred.
Use the TZ environment variable to override the current timezone. $ date -R Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:10:52 -0600 $ TZ="America/New_York" date -R Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:10:56 -0400 You might find the GNU coreutils FAQ entry on date interesting reading. I think you will find some useful tidbits there. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e Bob
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