How to get date and time using date command from another timezone in Linux?
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command on Linux gets the date and time in the system timezone. But how to get date and time using date command from another timezone in Linux?
You can make date
print the time of another timezone by setting the TZ
environment variable.
For example,
export TZ=Hongkong; date Sat Dec 1 09:39:13 HKT 2018
From the manual of date
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-date/
ENVIRONMENT
TZ
Specifies the timezone, unless overridden by command line parameters. If neither is specified, the setting from /etc/localtime is used.