From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Convert UTC time to local time using strftime and zsh/datetime
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:41:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADjGqHvaOkB-T_qGHDvt9=8TzSGiR8-FptXCX8VNFyfPkmJN-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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I have a screenshot of my iPhone which shows that it was taken at 11:42 a.m.
When I look at the file in Finder, it shows that it was taken at 11:42 a.m.
on Feb 11
You can see a screenshot here:
http://images.luo.ma/skitch/iPhonePhotos-1142am-20150220-231455.jpg
When I use `mdls -raw -name kMDItemContentCreationDate test.png` (a Mac
command to get the Creation Date), I get
2015-02-11 16:42:30 +0000
as the answer. This is, I believe, UTC. So I need to convert that to local
(US/Eastern) time.
I'm not sure how to do that, so heres what I did
1) Load the appropriate module
> zmodload zsh/datetime
2) get the Unix EPOCH time from the date/time stamp we have:
> strftime -r "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S +0000" "2015-02-11 16:42:30 +0000"
1423690950
3) Convert '1423690950' to US/Eastern time:
> strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" "1423690950"
2015-02-11 16:42:30
But that's still giving me '16' as the hour. It should be 11, shouldn't it?
4) Try again, this time making sure that I define the time zone:
> TZ=US/Eastern strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" "1423690950"
2015-02-11 16:42:30
Same time.
OK, so I'm obviously missing something. I checked '1423690950' on various
online "Unix time" converters and they confirm that it's 16:42 my time, but
since I know the picture was taken at 11:42, I'm wondering what I did wrong.
Tj
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-21 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-21 4:41 TJ Luoma [this message]
2015-02-21 5:02 ` Kurtis Rader
2015-02-21 18:23 ` Bart Schaefer
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