Insert Time Question In Different Time Zone

[Tom]

@JMichaelTX

How would you use the date command with a date/time other than the current date/time?

This may help:

Doing Time Offsets of HH/MM/SS and getting the MM/DD/YYYY/HH/MM/SS right

With the date command line tool you can “normalize” your dates to Epoch time: Your first format (with the time zone): datestringOne="2016-05-01 10:02:32" # -0500 TZ="America/New_York" date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d %T" "$datestringOne" +%s → 1462111352 ####Your second format: datestringTwo="5/1/2016 15:02:32" date -j -f "%m/%d/%Y %T" "$datestringTwo" +%s → 1462107752 (depending on your actual time zone) To the second string I have appended the missing seconds. Otherwise the current seconds would be …

The variable $datestringOne is the set time.