Changing the time zone in irssi

I usually set the time zone on my servers to UTC, but that makes it a bit confusing for me when I use irssi. If you have perl support built into irssi, you can run these commands to alter your time zone within irssi only:

/load perl
/script exec $ENV{'TZ'}='(nameofyourtimezone)';

For example, I'm in Central Time, so I'd use:

/script exec $ENV{'TZ'}='CST6CDT';

To update the time in your status bar, simply /whois yourself and you should see the updated time zone. If you want more handy irssi tips, look no further than irssi's documentation.

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3 Comments »

Anon The Moose says:

12.12.09 at 17:16

If you're starting an application in bash and want to set environmental variables for it, you can use something along the lines of:
```
$ TZ="CST6CDT" irssi
```
hypnotoad says:

16.06.11 at 02:30

Thank you, this was very useful.
fzeta says:

29.01.12 at 09:16

Madrid España :
/script exec $ENV{'TZ'}='UTC-1';

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