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| Date | Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:26:38 +1000 |
| Subject | Re: How to re-write this bash script in Python? |
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@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
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Re: How to re-write this bash script in Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-31 18:26 +1000
Convert between timezones (was: How to re-write this bash script in Python?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-31 12:35 +0200
Re: Convert between timezones Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> - 2015-08-01 03:39 +0300
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