-- Le (On) 2008-11-11 +0900 à (at) 23:14:05 John Summerfield écrivit (wrote): --

> Miles O'Neal wrote:
> >John Summerfield said...
> >|
> 
> 
> >|10:30 [summer@numbat ~]$ date
> >|Mon Nov 10 09:46:13 WST 2008
> >|09:46 [summer@numbat ~]$
> >
> >John (and everyone else), "just plug "time zone calculator"
> >into the search field of your favorite web search, and you'll
> >find tools galore for this.
> >
> >Just plug in the time Troy gave, along with either CST or
> >America/Chicago or US Central, or whichever variant your
> >chosen calculator provides, and there you are.
> 
> Surely, if people wish to communicate a time to others across the world, 
> it's sensible to do so in UTC. I think most people can convert UTC aka 
> GMT times to their own, and if they can't do that then the probability 
> of them coping with any other foreign time is pretty low.
> 

       The "date" command is enought :)
       If you give any date with any time zone to "date" you get
       your local time :

       date -d '2008-11-07 09:00 CST'
       
       Fri Nov  7 16:00:00 CET 2008


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