timezone command

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:48:11AM -0400, JJB wrote:
> Yes that is close enough for an starting point, thank you.
> 
> I need $timezone to hold the time zone in this format  -00:00
> The command date +%z  will give it as  -0000
> 
> I know nothing about writing perl scripts.
> 
> Can somebody show me how to  add the : in the output
> of the date command in the simple following script?
> 
> The cat statement is just so I can see results are correct.
> 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $timezone=date +%z;
> cat $timezone

You can do it very easily with perl:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    use POSIX (strftime);

    ($d = strftime("%z", localtime)) =~ s/(\d\d)(\d\d)/$1:$2/;

    print "$d\n";

but it's probably a bit too heavyweight to use perl to format the
string if you aren't already writing a whole script in perl.  Instead,
try:

    date +%z | sed -e 's,\([0-9][0-9]\)\([0-9][0-9]\),\1:\2,'

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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