{"id":7428,"date":"2016-03-22T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/linux-quick-tip-what-is-the-local-time-in-kolkata\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T12:50:45","slug":"linux-quick-tip-what-is-the-local-time-in-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/linux-quick-tip-what-is-the-local-time-in-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux quick tip &#8211; What is the local time in Kolkata?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite easy if you know how to do it from the shell (I didn&#8217;t know it \ud83d\ude42 ):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; firsts-line: 1\">\ndwe@dwe:~$ TZ='Asia\/Kolkata' date\nTue Mar 22 19:12:25 IST 2016\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can use &#8220;tzselect&#8221; to list the available combinations and get the local time for whatever you want:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; gutter: true; firsts-line: 1\">\ndwe@dwe:~$ tzselect \nPlease identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.\nPlease select a continent, ocean, \"coord\", or \"TZ\".\n 1) Africa\n 2) Americas\n 3) Antarctica\n 4) Arctic Ocean\n 5) Asia\n 6) Atlantic Ocean\n 7) Australia\n 8) Europe\n 9) Indian Ocean\n10) Pacific Ocean\n11) coord - I want to use geographical coordinates.\n12) TZ - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.\n#? 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