Linux has a in built timezone converter and I have been using various web services ever since.

Timezone is controlled by the TZ environment variable and you can set it to the desired timezone before executing a command, which will make the command think that you are in that particular timezone.

Here’s how to use it:

$ date Fri Mar 1 22:55:56 IST 2013 $ TZ=UTC date Fri Mar 1 17:26:02 UTC 2013 $ TZ=PST date Fri Mar 1 17:26:08 PST 2013 $ TZ=CET date Fri Mar 1 18:26:11 CET 2013 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 $ date Fri Mar 1 22 : 55 : 56 IST 2013 $ TZ = UTC date Fri Mar 1 17 : 26 : 02 UTC 2013 $ TZ = PST date Fri Mar 1 17 : 26 : 08 PST 2013 $ TZ = CET date Fri Mar 1 18 : 26 : 11 CET 2013

Accidental discovery at it’s best 😀