I'm working on a script to record some radio shows broadcast on the east coast of the USA and I want the filenames to contain the local time when the recording started. The script worked fine during the winter:
TIMESTAMP=`TZ=EST date +%Y%m%d-%H%M-%Z` but I wanted to modify it for the summer. I thought the code for east coast daylight savings time was EDT, but that comes out wrong: $ date Tue Apr 11 14:49:19 BST 2006 $ TZ=EST date Tue Apr 11 08:49:21 EST 2006 $ TZ=EDT date Tue Apr 11 13:49:24 EDT 2006 What is the TZ code for eastern daylight savings time, and where can I get a definite list of the abbreviations? How can I get my script to determine automatically whether standard or summer time applies? (My computer automatically changes to summer time for the UK, so I must have some relevant software that I don't know how to find.) -- Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]