Upcoming IRC Class tomorrow! (2009-11-17)

[Suvayu Ali]

On Monday 16 November 2009 10:07 PM, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> This is confusing.  Are you saying that time is a UTC time?
>
> Kevin Fenzi:
>> Yes. All Classroom times are in UTC.
>
> Okay.  I would have written "UTC" next to the time and date, just to
> make it quickly obvious...  As the website does (I didn't think to check
> that, until after posting, as is the usual mistake we make).
>
>> Use 'date -u' to see your current time in UTC.
>
> There's another command incantation, that I always forget, to do the
> reverse, and gives a result easier for us humans to understand:  Enter
> the advertised UTC time&  date for something, to find out the local time
> it will occur.
>

date -d 'string'

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Suvayu

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