Thank you Bob. I got it clear. On 2014/5/27 10:55, Bob Proulx wrote: > HoHo Zhao wrote: >> Wrong: >> $ TZ=UTC date -d "15:00 CST" (China Standard Time) >> Mon May 26 21:00:00 UTC 2014 >> >> So the problem is with "CST" in the date STRING. > > CST in the above is being interpreted as US Central Standard Time. > For Central Standard Time it is correct. > > CST is one of the ambiguous timezones that Pádraig referred to. This > is one of the reasons "date -R" with the unambiguous numeric timezones > is the better output format. > > Bob > >
-- HoHo Zhao Regional IT Support Red Hat Greater China
