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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: date(1) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 1997 12:09:06 +0930."
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:18:31 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Now here's an enhancement that I *would* like to see: specify a
> timezone file to use.  Something like:
> 
>   $ date -z /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tokyo
> 
> to give you the current time in Tokyo.

Blah.  What's wrong with:

jkh@time-> TZ=Asia/Tokyo date
Fri Aug  1 14:18:15 JST 1997

?