On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:13:08 +0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>Try one of these: >>519 $ echo $(TZ=EST5EDT date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S) >>2017-11-13:13:29:29 >>520 $ echo $(TZ=GMT0 date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S) >>2017-11-13:18:29:50 > >Colons in Windows filenames is not a good idea. Will simply not work. > Another good reason not to use Windows. (But colon is partly reserved in UNIX, also, as a separator in PATH environment variable.)
My suggestion was schematic. As Lizette suggested, the format should be adapted for local conventions. The OP indicated that the date-time were to insure uniqueness, so GMT should be as satisfactory as local time. Curse OMVS! On any reasonable UNIX system /etc/localtime is the default when TZ is unset. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
