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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Question on time and date formating.. Post 302754829 by nex_asp on Friday 11th of January 2013 08:12:13 AM
Old 01-11-2013
Question on time and date formating..
can anyone one help me....to make date and time format...to following format for my file

Code:
DATE                           TIME
DD- MON- YEAR         24 Hours

I have a need of format like this

12-Jan-2012 in one column, then time in 24 Hours in another column....please help...me...

currently we are upgrading our database....kindly help to make standard format...

our database containing format like this

Code:
DD-MON-YEAR
MON-DAY-YEAR
YEAR-MON-DAY
DD/MON/YEAR
MON/DAY/YEAR
YEAR/MON/DAY

some files containing month name, some number...

and time format
both 12 and 24 hours are mixed

script has to read current format of date and time and then write to new file with standard format

Awaiting for help...

those who know please do favour for me...
problem.txt (1.1 KB) 
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 01-11-2013 at 09:20 AM..
 

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wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date

WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)

NAME

       wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date - Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time.

SYNOPSIS

	 # Removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date
	 #  (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point.

	 wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date --type postgres
		  --name mywiki 
		  --user wiki  
		  --pass wiki 
		  --host 'db.example.com' 
		  --port 1234 
		  --date 2007-01-05 
		  --time 11:23:21

DESCRIPTION

       Takes three mandatory arguments:

       type
	   The database type.  Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'.

       name
	   The database name.

       date
	   The date to revert the state back to, in the format YYYY-MM-DD

       five optional arguments:

       time
	   The time (on the specified date) to revert the state back to, in the format hh:mm:ss. If not specified, will use midnight.

       user
	   The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database.

       pass
	   The user's database password.

       host
	   The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases).

       port
	   The port number that the database server is expecting connections to.

AUTHOR

       Nick Burch

COPYRIGHT

	    Copyright (C) 2006 Nick Burch.  All Rights Reserved.

       This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Wiki::Toolkit

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-25					   WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)
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