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To see the meeting start time in your time zone, run this in GNU bash: <code>date --date='TZ="America/Detroit" 12:00 this Fri'</code> | To see the meeting start time in your time zone, run this in GNU bash: <code>date --date='TZ="America/Detroit" 12:00 this Fri'</code> | ||
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| − | <!-- The TZ name in `date` (eg TZ="America/Detroit" date) automatically takes care of converting times between daylight saving, but Boston is unfortunately not listed in the Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) at this writing (2018-01), so this command cannot be used yet: TZ="America/Boston" date --> | + | <!-- The TZ name in `date` (eg TZ="America/Detroit" date) automatically takes care of converting times between daylight saving, but Boston is unfortunately not listed in the Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) at this writing (2018-01), so this command cannot be used yet: TZ="America/Boston" date. What we do is take a registered named time zone where the name of the zone offset matches for both normal and daylight saving times, in this case Detroit's match with Boston's because both use EST (UTC-5) for normal and EDT (UTC-4) for daylight saving time. --> |
Revision as of 21:33, 29 January 2018
Join us each Friday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (ET) for the FSD IRC meetings! For more details, check the Free Software Directory blog.
To see the meeting start time in your time zone, run this in GNU bash: date --date='TZ="America/Detroit" 12:00 this Fri'
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