Hi Dan: On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Dan McGhee <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I got to the end of your post and you wondered about a "simple" > <if> command, my mind went right back to these two statements. This is also > just a "gut reaction" to your post and not thought out. (I'm taking a > break from trying to make my new LFS bootable in an efi environment.) > > > You could test $DATE to see if it's between Nov 3 01:59:59 and Mar > <whatever> 01:59:59. Let's say the start date is time1 and the end date > time2 then you could say: > > if $DATE >= time1 -a <= time2; then > tz=EST (or UTC-5) #however you can write that to make bash understand > else > tz=EDT (or UTC-4) #same caveat > fi > > And then use $tz however you do in your wrapper. > > Hopefully, this might lead you down a path to resolve your dilemma and > stop global warming. > > This logic with checking the DATE against _this year_ date of time-change may work (I didn't take any time at all to figure out exactly how it can work in practice), but _my_ "gut reaction" is it has clearly a better chance to stop global warming in the meantime :) But I'll look into it as soon as I get a chance. Thanks, -- Alex
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