# Desc: Baltakatei's verbose date command
# Usage: bkdatev [args]
# Example: bkdatev --date="2001-09-11T09:02:59-04"
-# Version: 1.0.2
-# Depends: GNU Coreutils 8.32, Bash 3.2.57
+# Version: 1.0.4
+# Depends: GNU Coreutils 8.32, Bash 3.2.57, tzdata-legacy
# Ref/Attrib: [1] "ISO 8601". Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
# [2] "Changing the Locale in Wine" https://stackoverflow.com/a/16428951
# [3] "Shanghai vs Beijing" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgweather/+bug/228554
(
export TZ=UTC;
id="UTC";
- date_string="$(date -Is)";
- right_epoch="$(TZ=right/UTC date --date="$date_string" +%s;)"; # see [4]
- fs_3="+%s seconds (${right_epoch} with leap seconds) since 1970-01-01T00:00+00";
+ path_right_tz="/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/UTC";
+ if [[ -f "$path_right_tz" ]]; then
+ date_string="$(date -Is "$@"; )";
+ right_epoch="$(TZ=right/UTC date --date="$date_string" +%s;)"; # see [4]
+ fs_3="+%s POSIX seconds (${right_epoch} real) since 1970-01-01T00:00+00";
+ else
+ fs_3="+%s POSIX seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00+00";
+ fi;
print_dateline "$@";
); line_sep;