4 Feb
2005
4 Feb
'05
5:59 a.m.
Simon Marlow wrote:
The time zone issue is a red herring. You can use UTC calendar time exclusively if you want.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that, but you need local
calendar times for date arithmetic, e.g. "one month from now":
$ export TZ=Asia/Tokyo
$ date -d '2005-02-28 23:00 UTC'
Tue Mar 1 08:00:00 JST 2005
$ date -d '2005-03-01 08:00 JST'
Tue Mar 1 08:00:00 JST 2005
$ date -d '2005-02-28 23:00 UTC +1month'
Tue Mar 29 08:00:00 JST 2005
$ date -d '2005-03-01 08:00 JST +1month'
Fri Apr 1 08:00:00 JST 2005
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Glynn Clements