[jason@critter ~ 0]$ date
Fri Dec 28 13:24:04 EST 2007
# oops, there are two ESTs, one at -0500 and one at +1000/+1100, which one is it?
[jason@critter ~ 0]$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  30 Dec  5 12:06 /etc/localtime@ -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern