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How do I get the ls command to show its dates and times in UTC, instead of localtime?

I don't want to permanently change the local time for my system to do this.

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answered 2 Years ago humbire · Accepted Answer

One can set the time zone environment variable for each invocation of ls like so:

TZ=utc ls -l

or set it once with:

export TZ=utc

in a shell to have it always on, for the remaining duration of the shell session.