Objective: Get the current time in a different timezone on Linux without changing the system timezone.
The easiest way to show the current time on a different timezone is to set the TZ environment variable before calling date. To show the current time in Singapore, set TZ to Asia/Singapore.
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$ TZ=Asia/Singapore date Sun May 21 18:01:48 SGT 2017 |
To get the list of possible values of TZ, use tzselect or timedatectl commands. tzselect is a menu driven utility to view timezones and to view timezones using timedatectl, use the list-timezones option. To list all timezones in Asia using timedatectl, use the following command syntax.
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$ timedatectl list-timezones | grep Asia |
The other method is to use zdump utility to print the time in a different timezone. To get the current time in Singapore using zdump, use the following command syntax.
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$ zdump Asia/Singapore Asia/Singapore Sun May 21 18:22:41 2017 SGT |
Mohamed Ibrahim
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