On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 17:17, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> You can do it very easily with perl:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use POSIX (strftime);
>
> ($d = strftime("%z", localtime)) =~ s/(\d\d)(\d\d)/$1:$2/;
>
> print "$d\n";
>
> but it's probably a bit too heavyweight to use perl to format the
> string if you aren't already writing a whole script in perl. Instead,
> try:
>
> date +%z | sed -e 's,\([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\),\1:\2,'
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
Oops, didn't notice this because it was in a different thread. Well now
you have two Perl solutions :)
--
Shaun Friedle
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