[TAG] 2-cent Tip: Yo! zdump!

[Ben Okopnik]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:43:47PM -0400, Benjamin Okopnik wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from "s. keeling" <keeling at nucleus.com> -----
> 
> I've yet again just discovered that tomorrow morning is "spring
> forward Day", so this may be apropos:
> 
>    alias dst="zdump -v Canada/Mountain | grep $(date '+%Y')"
> 
> Substitute your TZ for C/M, of course.

Even that last part can be automated:

``
alias dst="zdump -v `cat /etc/timezone` | grep $(date '+%Y')"
''


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