Utc

Utc

[Cheryl Homiak]

Aparently the "at" command only takes utc. can somebody tell me how to 
calculate that? I'm in U.s. central daylight time.
thanks.


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Re: Utc

[Lorenzo Prince]

At the moment, UTC is 5 hours ahead of you.  So if it is 12:00 pm where you are,
it's 1700 UTC.  After the time changes back in October, UTC will be 6 hours
ahead of you, so if it's 12:00 pm it will be 1800 UTC.

HTH,
PRINCE

Re: Utc

[Shaun Oliver]

well all you'd need to do to get UTC/gmt
is add 5 hours on to your current time.
because if you look at your offset it's -500
hth

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Re: Utc

[Buddy Brannan]

UTC is universal coordinated time (it's french), or alternatively,
Greenwich Mean Time. It never changes...that means when we hve
daylight saving time, UTC doesn't change. So:

For standard time, UTC is 5 hours ahead of Eastern, 6 ahead of
central, 7 ahead of mountain, and 8 ahead of pacific.

When daylight saving time kicks in, UTC is:
4 hours ahead of easter, 5 ahead of central, 6 ahead of mountain, and
7 ahead of pacific.

If you live in parts of Indiana, or in all of Arizona or Hawaii, you
don't observe this silly daylight saving time practice, so you'd be on
standard time all year and should calculate UTC accordingly. 
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Re: Utc

[Igor Gueths]

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What you have to do in your case is add 5 hours to the current time. Another way to do it would be to do date -u, and input the resulting time into at. Date -u will output the current time in 
UTC. 
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:23:41PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Aparently the "at" command only takes utc. can somebody tell me how to 
> calculate that? I'm in U.s. central daylight time.
> thanks.
> 
> 
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Re: Utc

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi Cheryl.

CDT is 5 hours back from gmt. So, if it's 2:00P here, it is 7:00P in
GMT. Here is a tip, if you do

date -u

date will give you the current time in GMT. Hth.

Greg


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:23:41PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Aparently the "at" command only takes utc. can somebody tell me how to 
> calculate that? I'm in U.s. central daylight time.
> thanks.
> 
> 
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Re: Utc

[Janina Sajka]

Over the past few years I've grown increasingly reliant on my portable
computer. This includes using AT as my alarm clock when I travel. I have
found it fully reliable, but I have also found that I need to give it
time in the time zone which my computer defaults to. In my case, that's
EST.

Of course, calculating this can become a tad tricky when one is many
time zones distant. So, I've added a few key aliases to my bashrc such
as the ones below. These give me simple commands that return the current
time for various areas of the planet:

alias est="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern date" #Eastern Time
alias cst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central date" #Central Time
alias mst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain date" #Mountain Time
alias pst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific date" #Pacific Time
alias hst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/HST date" #Hawaii
alias sst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Pago_Pago date" #Samoa
alias wst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth date" #Perth
alias jst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Japan date" #Japan
alias ist="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel date" #Israel
alias bst="TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/GB date"

Of course, these aliases take account of local daylight time shifts,
even though their names wouldn't change.

I have often thought it would be fun to have tools to return time for
cities by name, along with other pertinent data such as longitude,
lattitude, etc. At least the time part helps when you're making phone
calls around the planet.

Hope this helps.

Gregory Nowak writes:
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> Hi Cheryl.
> 
> CDT is 5 hours back from gmt. So, if it's 2:00P here, it is 7:00P in
> GMT. Here is a tip, if you do
> 
> date -u
> 
> date will give you the current time in GMT. Hth.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:23:41PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > Aparently the "at" command only takes utc. can somebody tell me how to 
> > calculate that? I'm in U.s. central daylight time.
> > thanks.
> > 
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Re: Utc

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hey, Janina, this is really cool!
I actually think it wouldn't be hard to adapt this in some way to do 
cities and maybe even latitude and longitude with a little thought and 
work.
Thanks.


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Re: Utc

[Adam Myrow]

You can use the "env" command to simplify those aliases.  For example, the 
line below would show you central time.

alias cst="env TZ=US/Central date"

It's just another example of how there are a million different ways to do 
the same thing in Unix and Linux.  Another utility which could come in 
handy if you are not quite sure of what exactly the time zone is in a 
given area is tzselect.  It gives you several menus to select continent, 
country, and if needed, location.  It then gives you the proper value for 
the TZ environment variable for that location.  It can be run by any user.

Re: Utc

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
You have to know how to calculate that.  In your particular case, UTC is
five hours ahead of the time you have.  Eastern Daylight time, for example,
is only four hours ahead.  Also, note that since UTC has no daylight savings
time and we do, when going off daylight savings time, since this would push
you behind you would now be six hours behind UTC.
Jayson.

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From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@charter.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
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Subject: Utc


> Aparently the "at" command only takes utc. can somebody tell me how to
> calculate that? I'm in U.s. central daylight time.
> thanks.
>
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
>
>
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utc

[Cheryl Homiak]

Never mind; I found a table.


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Re: utc

[Adam Myrow]

I've never heard of an implementation of the "at" command which requires 
its time to be specified in UTC.  What distribution of Linux is this? 
It's sure not that way in Slackware.  It seems kind of silly to make it 
require UTC.

Re: utc

[Cheryl Homiak]

Well, when I tried to do an entry it said that. but it lied, because when 
I tried doing that it didn't work but  time did. Besides, you can do a 
whole bunch of things with the time. You can even do
now +
with minutes, hours, days. So I don't know if I misread something or if 
the way I entered my command prompted this for some reason but i had tried 
it twice and gotten that message.
At is really quite an interesting program even if it didn't work for my 
purposes today.


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Re: Utc

[Sean M McMahon]

Central daylight time right now is -0500 and -0600 in winter.

Re: Utc

[Sean M McMahon]

I believe alaska and puerto rico are also not on daylight savings time. To 
expand on your comment for arizona, Most of Arizona doesn't observe 
daylight savings but the Navajo nation does. 

Re: Utc

[Wesley Groleau]

On 21 Jul 2004, at 19:16, Sean M McMahon wrote:

> I believe alaska and puerto rico are also not on daylight savings 
> time. To
> expand on your comment for arizona, Most of Arizona doesn't observe
> daylight savings but the Navajo nation does.

If anybody cares, most of Indiana doesn't.

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