Re: Change servers timezone to UTC (was: Bugzilla will be DOWN Sat 9 April 17.00-20.00 UTC)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:44 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-04 at 12:20 -0400, Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> > > Well anybody knows (ought to know) their own offset from UTC. But one
> > > always has to start counting how many hours is MDT from EDT or EST. (And
> > > that's one of the easy comparisons.)
> > 
> > Alternatively...
> > 
> > [mgalgoci razor ~]$ date --utc
> > Fri Apr  8 16:19:19 UTC 2005
> > 
> 
> this per se doesn't help me when accessing bugzilla. My machine is
> running MDT, so I can use the above command to easily determine the utc
> time but not the EDT time.

It can:
$ TZ=EDT date
Fri Apr  8 16:53:33 EDT 2005
$ TZ=EST date
Fri Apr  8 11:53:37 EST 2005
$ date
Fri Apr  8 17:53:38 BST 2005

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>