How to calculate a Time Zone from my server

Question

My server runs on UCT time.

What is the command to check a specific time zone? i.e. America/New_York

And to be clear, I don't wish to update the servers time zone, I just want to know what it calculates another time zone to be.

Yes all Unix machines should use UTC. The timezone is applied at display time. — ctrl-alt-delor, Jul 17 '19 at 11:21
Are you asking “How do I show the time in another timezone?“ — ctrl-alt-delor, Jul 17 '19 at 11:21
yes - I just want to display the time of a different time zone. — HappyCoder, Jul 17 '19 at 11:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '19 at 11:16

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The easiest way is to specify the time zone in the environment when running the date command:

$ TZ=America/New_York date
Wed Jul 17 07:16:39 EDT 2019

answered Jul 17 '19 at 11:16

wurtel

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 17 '19 at 11:17

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From man date:

Show the time on the west coast of the US (use tzselect(1) to find TZ)

$ TZ='America/Los_Angeles' date

This works by setting the variable TZ to a new value just for the date command.

answered Jul 17 '19 at 11:17

Panki

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