date alias

date alias

[pericles]

Steven, others,

I've added the following to /root/.profile

alias date='date +'%cEST''

and output is Thu Jun 06 13:33:14 2002EST

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).  Am I looking at
a kind of variable?  What is the %c called
in the above alias?  Am I looking for something
similar to %c?

Thanks, and best regards,

John E. Jay Maass, k7jkz
suburban Philadelphia
pericles@v35.com
http://jaywire.members.tripod.com
using Steven Darnold's BasicLinux Ver. 1.61





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Re: date alias

[Steven Smith]

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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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Re: date alias

[Suriya Narayanan M S]

On Thursday 01 January 1970 05:30, pericles@v35.com wrote:
  > Steven, others,
  > 
  > I've added the following to /root/.profile
  > 
  > alias date='date +'%cEST''
  > 
  > and output is Thu Jun 06 13:33:14 2002EST
  > 
  > 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).  Am I looking at
  > a kind of variable?  What is the %c called
  > in the above alias?  Am I looking for something
  > similar to %c?

$ man date
[snip]

%c     locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)

[snip]

$ date +"%c EST"
Fri 07 Jun 2002 03:58:20 PM IST EST


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