Hello Maurice,

On 26 Apr 16 13:44, Maurice Kinal wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 MK> In the case here the offset is zero so there is nothing for it to
 MK> calculate.  However if any of the locals in this neck of the woods
 MK> asks me what time it is then I could do something like this;

 MK>   maurice@lilmikey [ ~ ]$ TZ=PST8PDT date +"%A, %d %B %Y, %T.%N %z"
 MK>   Tuesday, 26 April 2016, 06:39:11.512122527 -0700

 MK> Also for the French speaking locals (there are a couple in the
 MK> neighbourhood) this might be more meaningful to them;

 MK>   maurice@lilmikey [ ~ ]$ LANG=fr_CA.utf8 TZ=PST8PDT date +"%A, %d %B
 MK> %Y, %T.%N %z" mardi, 26 avril 2016, 06:41:01.480260762 -0700

So if your friendly neighbour is walking down the street, says "Hello Maurice!
Do you by chance have the time?" you're going to run home and type either of
those into your computer? If so, you must not get out much. 

Regards,
Nick

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