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How can I have `date` output the time from a different timezonetime zone?

I have a server running with the timezonetime zone set to UTC. It seemed like that was generally a good practice (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Anyhow, one of the servers I connect to, in order to scp files, is running on EDT and stores files that I need to copy in the format /path/to/filename/data20120913.

I looked at trying to rsync files using something like find's -mtime -1 flag for files modified in the last day, but I didn't have any luck.

I don't mind just using scp to copy the current day's file, but as of right now there is a 4-hour window where running date +%Y%m%d will give a different day on each server and that bugs me a little.

Looking through man date I see that I can have the time output as UTC, but I don't see a way to have it output as another timezonetime zone like EDT

I suppose I could also use something like the GNU GNUdate date extension date -d 20100909 +%s to get the date in seconds fromsince the epoch, apply a manual 4 * 60 * 60 second calculation, and see about rendering that as a date - but then when daylight time kicks in it will still be an hour off.

Is there a simpler way to output the date in a YYYYMMDD format for EDT on a server that is set to UTC  ?

How can I have `date` output the time from a different timezone?

I have a server running with the timezone set to UTC. It seemed like that was generally a good practice (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Anyhow, one of the servers I connect to, in order to scp files, is running on EDT and stores files that I need to copy in the format /path/to/filename/data20120913

I looked at trying to rsync files using something like find's -mtime -1 flag for files modified in the last day, but I didn't have any luck.

I don't mind just using scp to copy the current day's file, but as of right now there is a 4-hour window where running date +%Y%m%d will give a different day on each server and that bugs me a little.

Looking through man date I see that I can have the time output as UTC, but I don't see a way to have it output as another timezone like EDT

I suppose I could also use something like the GNU date extension date -d 20100909 +%s to get the date in seconds from the epoch, apply a manual 4 * 60 * 60 second calculation, and see about rendering that as a date - but then when daylight time kicks in it will still be an hour off.

Is there a simpler way to output the date in a YYYYMMDD format for EDT on a server that is set to UTC  ?

How can I have `date` output the time from a different time zone?

I have a server running with the time zone set to UTC. It seemed like that was generally a good practice (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Anyhow, one of the servers I connect to, in order to scp files, is running on EDT and stores files that I need to copy in the format /path/to/filename/data20120913.

I looked at trying to rsync files using something like find's -mtime -1 flag for files modified in the last day, but I didn't have any luck.

I don't mind just using scp to copy the current day's file, but as of right now there is a 4-hour window where running date +%Y%m%d will give a different day on each server and that bugs me a little.

Looking through man date I see that I can have the time output as UTC, but I don't see a way to have it output as another time zone like EDT

I suppose I could also use something like the GNU date extension date -d 20100909 +%s to get the date in seconds since the epoch, apply a manual 4 * 60 * 60 second calculation, and see about rendering that as a date - but then when daylight time kicks in it will still be an hour off.

Is there a simpler way to output the date in a YYYYMMDD format for EDT on a server that is set to UTC?

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How can I have `date` output the time from a different timezone?

I have a server running with the timezone set to UTC. It seemed like that was generally a good practice (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Anyhow, one of the servers I connect to, in order to scp files, is running on EDT and stores files that I need to copy in the format /path/to/filename/data20120913

I looked at trying to rsync files using something like find's -mtime -1 flag for files modified in the last day, but I didn't have any luck.

I don't mind just using scp to copy the current day's file, but as of right now there is a 4-hour window where running date +%Y%m%d will give a different day on each server and that bugs me a little.

Looking through man date I see that I can have the time output as UTC, but I don't see a way to have it output as another timezone like EDT

I suppose I could also use something like the GNU date extension date -d 20100909 +%s to get the date in seconds from the epoch, apply a manual 4 * 60 * 60 second calculation, and see about rendering that as a date - but then when daylight time kicks in it will still be an hour off.

Is there a simpler way to output the date in a YYYYMMDD format for EDT on a server that is set to UTC ?