[SOLVED] 'date' accepts CET but not CEST

mir91 · 2015-01-11 23:44:19

I can use this to find out what 0.00h CET is in my time zone:

date -d '0:00 CET'

Now I want to find out what 0.00 CEST would be in my time zone, but this doesn't work:

date -d '0:00 CEST'
date: invalid date ‘0:00 CEST’

Edit: Solution is to use MEST or MESZ instead of CEST.

Last edited by mir91 (2015-01-11 23:57:22)

Raynman · 2015-01-11 23:51:09

Wikipedia mentions CEDT and MEST as alternative names for CEST and MEST seems to work. No clue why the more common (AFAIK) CEST is not recognized.

mir91 · 2015-01-11 23:56:20

Thanks, CEDT doesn't work but MEST seems to.
MESZ apparently works too.

Last edited by mir91 (2015-01-11 23:58:30)

WorMzy · 2015-01-11 23:56:47

CEST works here:

$ date -d '0:00 CEST'
Sat 10 Jan 22:00:00 GMT 2015

I wonder if this is a locale thing. I'm using LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8".

mir91 · 2015-01-11 23:58:14

I'm using the exact same locale.

WorMzy · 2015-01-12 00:08:04

Oh well, so much for that theory.

Trilby · 2015-01-12 00:14:15

FWIW, CEST works fine here too.

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