On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: >> For example, bash lacks >> decent timezone support, so I can well believe random832's guess that >> your five-hour offset is a simulation of that; but Python can do much >> better work with timezones, so you can get that actually correct. > > > Actually, bash has no timezone support but the date command _does_, and > probably neither better nor worse than Python. All one has to do is set the > TZ environment variable, eg (untested): > > _year_gmt=$( TZ=GMT date +%Y )
That's assuming that it's converting against the current system timezone. I don't know how you'd use `date` to convert between two arbitrary timezones. But anyway, still justification to rewrite from original spec rather than reimplementing the five-hour hack. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
