[rescue] Timezone

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yeah I found that one in my Google search.  Not clean or efficient at all.
The shell variable trick would be so much better if I could figure out
what I'm missing and get it to work. :)

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On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Steve Sandau wrote:

> I've seen an answer to this on the Internet before. The link here isn't
> the method I've seen before, but it would appear to work. :)
> 
> http://unix.about.com/library/weekly/aa070901e.htm
> 
> ed at the7thbeer.com wrote:
> > 
> > Question --
> > 
> > In bourne shell, 'tis written that one may do:
> > 
> > $ TZ="TZ+24"
> > $ export TZ
> > $ date
> >  and the output of date will be the previous day.  My output is the day
> > before + 8 hours.  I presume this is because my TZ is Pacific.  But adding
> > 24 + 8 for "TZ+32" yields today + 3 hours.  *headscratch*  Maybe I had too
> > much eggnog last night...
> > 
> > First, anyone know the best way to get the previous day(and the day
> > before) out of a shell construct and second, why do you add 24 hours to
> > the timezone to get the *previous* day?  My guess is that since timezones
> > increment towards the east, that subtracting, as in PST = GMT - 8hrs,
> > would get you to midnight of the same day and then back over  the
> > international date line, which would be the following day.  Is this even
> > close?
> > 
> > Ah, the little puzzles my wife gives me for Christmas.  :)
> > 
> > ed
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> Steve Sandau
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