strftime to display times in UTC [SOLVED]

graysky · 2011-12-09 21:46:49

I'm using tree to generate some lists but I would like to have the DTS to have times displayed in UTC, not my local time zone.

tree -DC -T "Heading" -H "title" --charset=utf8 --timefmt "%b %d %R" -o test.html

This gives the output times in 24 h notation but with my timezone offset. I can't figure out how to get it to output with no offset, i.e. using UTC.

Last edited by graysky (2011-12-09 22:05:29)

falconindy · 2011-12-09 21:55:48

If tree really uses strftime, then it will honor the TZ environment var. Just prefix the command with TZ=UTC.

foutrelis · 2011-12-09 21:57:45

falconindy wrote:

If tree really uses strftime, then it will honor the TZ environment var. Just prefix the command with TZ=UTC.

This. It's also mentioned in the tree man page, under the ENVIRONMENT section..

graysky · 2011-12-09 22:05:19

Got it! Have to export TZ=UTC for it to work.

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