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Old 12-21-2007
nhatch nhatch is offline
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Another nce way is setting up a new variable (you can adjust the number of hours by changng the +n value previous day is +24)

Code:
-bash-3.00$ NEWDATE=`TZ=GMT+2 date +%Y-%m-%d" "%H:%M:%S`
-bash-3.00$ echo $NEWDATE
2007-12-21 09:57:09
-bash-3.00$ date
Fri Dec 21 11:57:17 GMT 2007
-bash-3.00$