[Techtalk] simple date question

[mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org]

> From: John Clarke <johnc+linuxchix at kirriwa.net>
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] simple date question
> 
> Have you tried setting the TZ environment variable?  e.g.:
>
>    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ date
>    Wed Oct  9 14:35:35 EST 2013
>    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ TZ=UTC date
>    Wed Oct  9 03:35:35 UTC 2013
>    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ TZ=Australia/West date
>    Wed Oct  9 11:35:35 WST 2013
>    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ TZ=US/Pacific date
>    Tue Oct  8 20:35:35 PDT 2013
>    [johnc at dropbear ~]$ TZ=America/Los_Angeles date
>    Tue Oct  8 20:35:35 PDT 2013

Absolutely! As a matter of fact, I just found that suggestion on 
Duckduckgo and set it - but it only works for the current terminal 
session.  Sudo export TZ=America/New_York just gives a command not 
recognized message.  I'm a bit embarassed becuase when I first started 
using Unix, I seem to remember setting env's that didn't disappear, but 
it's been many distros ago.

>
> On my Ubuntu system, timezone files are stored in /usr/share/zoneinfo.
> Set TZ to the appropriate relative path from there.
>
>
> - John
>

That seems to be the best solution - a soft link to the right zone file. 
Thanks for the help on this insignificant but very irritating problem.

MG

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