I thought that an easy way to obtain the "official" time in another timezone
(inclusive of DST setting) i.e. "what time is now in XXXX if here it is
hh:mm" was the following :
(set TZ timezone ; date)
this would set the TZ environment variable in a subshell without altering the
real machine timezone. The date man page says e.g.
-u Performs operations as if the TZ environment variable was set to the
string GMT0. Otherwise, date uses the time zone indicated by the TZ
environment variable or the system default if that variable is not set.
However it appears that if I do that and setenv TZ to any of the zone names
listed in /etc/zoneinfo, I always get my date in MET. N.B. I have a link
localtime_at_ -> ./MET in /etc/zoneinfo.
What's wrong in my reasoning ?
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