From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: linusarver@gmail.com
Cc: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to get the “full” time zone currently in use?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 08:56:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADjGqHu7VFA88e7BzNdxvy3jufV8eEb4ziwRkxC2FP6ey7w+dA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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That works, and I haven’t found anything else that does. This:
readlink /etc/localtime | sed ’s#.*/zoneinfo/##g'
gives me the exact same information as
sudo systemsetup -gettimezone | sed ’s#^Time Zone: ##g’
which is what I wanted.
Thanks!
TjL
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TJ Luoma
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Personal Website: luo.ma <http://luo.ma/> (aka RhymesWithDiploma.com
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 7:09 PM Linus Arver <linusarver@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about
>
> readlink /etc/localtime
>
> ?
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:13 AM TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Zsh Friends,
>>
>> I am trying to use zsh to find the current time-zone that the computer
>> uses.
>>
>> I know that this:
>>
>> `strftime "%Z" "$EPOCHSECONDS"`
>>
>> will show me the current timezone (EDT, in my case) but I'm looking for
>> "America/New_York"
>>
>> The only way that I can find to get that information on the Mac is
>>
>> `sudo systemsetup -gettimezone`
>>
>> but it seems absurd to need to use `sudo` to get that information.
>>
>> I searched the web and found that the variable "TZ" is supposed to hold
>> this command, but TZ is empty in my testing on my Macs, so that's no help
>> either.
>>
>> I've got to imagine that there's _some_ way to do this, but I'm stuck
>> trying to figure it out.
>>
>> Anyone have a solution?
>>
>> Thanks for your time
>>
>> Tj
>>
>>
>> --
>> TJ Luoma
>> TJ @ MacStories
>> Personal Website: luo.ma (aka RhymesWithDiploma.com)
>> Twitter: @tjluoma
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-29 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-27 16:12 TJ Luoma
2018-07-27 23:09 ` Linus Arver
2018-07-29 12:56 ` TJ Luoma [this message]
2018-07-29 15:32 ` Matthew Martin
2018-07-31 13:54 ` TJ Luoma
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