Re: Determine Time in other Time Zone

Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> "Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > Second, perhaps this sort of problem has been solved via the ntp software?
> > ntp polls various time servers. Perhaps there is a way to call a timeserver
> > that is local to where ever the users are logging in from.
>
> NTP keeps time in UTC.  Translation into local time is the
> responsibility of the client.  So that won't help much.
>
> Translating times between time zones is a hard problem.  One thing to
> look at is the timezone code that is shipped with free Unices
> (BSD/Linux) as it comes with a database of timezones with their
> offsets and DST rules.

it SHOULD be simple, if you have access to what you need:

    -- convert originaltime to localtime:
    localTime = originalTime - originalTimeZone + localTimeZone

isn't there any quickie utility to deliver such variables? maybe at the
shell/scripting level? this is *nix, after all...

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