Hello,

Do you know a nice program that can convert time between time zones ?
Once that could permit to select a place somewhere in the world and see
the local time, or to give the time and date in a place and know the
correspondant time in another, and so.
Can be in command line, eventually.

Thanks in advance,
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On 22 Jan 2005 19:40:05 GMT, Gauthier <alouest.du.soleil@NOSPAM_skynet.be> wrote:
> Do you know a nice program that can convert time between time zones ?
> Once that could permit to select a place somewhere in the world and see
> the local time, or to give the time and date in a place and know the
> correspondant time in another, and so.

Errrm... a bit off topic, don't you think?

Have you checked Freshmeat? Google?

http://www.worldtimezone.com/, IMHO, can't be beat. It is, of course, a
website and not a utility. But it does the job. :-)

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Gauthier wrote:

> Do you know a nice program that can convert time between time zones ?
> Once that could permit to select a place somewhere in the world and
> see the local time, or to give the time and date in a place and know
> the correspondant time in another, and so.

There is World Clock in the Toys section of KDE.
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Gauthier <alouest.du.soleil@NOSPAM_skynet.be> wrote:
> Do you know a nice program that can convert time between time zones ?

Date could do that for you. By default it will show your local date, but
you can show some other time by modifying the TZ environment variable:

Example:

henca@balrog:~$ date
Sun Jan 23 00:37:23 CET 2005
henca@balrog:~$ export TZ=UTC
henca@balrog:~$ date
Sat Jan 22 23:37:29 UTC 2005
henca@balrog:~$ export TZ=Asia/Tokyo
henca@balrog:~$ date
Sun Jan 23 08:39:42 JST 2005

Valid timezones are listed in /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab

> Once that could permit to select a place somewhere in the world and see
> the local time,

As above.

> or to give the time and date in a place and know the
> correspondant time in another, and so.

As far as I know date is not able to do that, but if you read the manpage
for convdate you might find something useful.

regards Henrik
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:46:24 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist
<Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
> henca@balrog:~$ export TZ=UTC
> henca@balrog:~$ date
> Sat Jan 22 23:37:29 UTC 2005

If it's only temporary, you can combine those into one line:

simon@avatar:~$ date
Sun Jan 23 00:38:51 GMT 2005
simon@avatar:~$ TZ=EST date
Sat Jan 22 19:38:51 EST 2005


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Le Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:42:34 -0000, AthlonRob <junkmail@axpr.net> a écrit:
> Errrm... a bit off topic, don't you think?

Yes, I apologize...

> Have you checked Freshmeat? Google?

Yes, but sometimes, on newsgroups, you get some simple solutions based
on standard tools.

> http://www.worldtimezone.com/, IMHO, can't be beat. It is, of course, a
> website and not a utility. But it does the job. :-)
>
Thanks to all,
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