I am running command stat -c%y filename
on linux system.
Output:
2014-03-08 13:26:29.335545828 -0800
I am not able to understand the last -0800 thing. Anyone have any idea?
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Sign up to join this communityThe last field is the timezone, as an offset from the UTC timezone.
$ perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strftime("%z", localtime()),"\n"'
-0400
$ perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strftime("%Z", localtime()),"\n"'
EDT
I'm on the east coast of the United States, so I'm 4 hours behind UTC time, you're likely on the west coast, since your 8 hours behind. If you were ahead of UTC time it would show a plus sign (+
) instead of a minus (-
).
NOTE: Currently we just changed from EST to EDT for day light savings time.
If you start poking around your filesystem you'll likely find some files that were created while your system was in one timezone, while some were created in the other.
$ stat afile.txt ~/.bashrc | grep Mod
Modify: 2014-03-12 03:51:53.986768920 -0400
Modify: 2014-01-17 20:47:54.406548527 -0500
date
command can help if you take the times, convert them to epoch seconds, subtract them, and then convert the epoch seconds back to a more human readable format.
It's giving you the offset from UTC. In your example, the time given is 8 hours behind UTC (typically this is right for the US west coast).