Re: date alias

[Steven Smith <sos22@cam.ac.uk>]

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> I've added the following to /root/.profile
> 
> alias date='date +'%cEST''
> 
> and output is Thu Jun 06 13:33:14 2002EST
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to achieve here. If
you just want the date in EST, then try:

export TZ=EST
date +%c

If you're root, you can set the system-wide timezone by
changing /etc/localtime (on my machine, this is a symbolic
link to a timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo). Then
anyone who doesn't have a TZ environment variable gets
that timezone.

> I have all the reference materials I need,
> but don't know where to begin looking. I'd
> like to include a space between the year
> and time zone (2002 EST).
Try:

alias date='date "+%c EST"'

> What is the %c called in the above alias?
Depending on who you ask, they're either directives or
output specifiers.

Steven Smith,
sos22@cam.ac.uk


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