11-08-2004
According to a web site I found:
148138 = 1988-5-16
148139 = 5/17/1988
these are two examples of lilian dates from an IBM website.
Using ksh,
function lil { datecalc -j $(( $1 - 100841)) ; }
defines a function and then "lil 148138" results in "1988 5 16". This function depends on my datecalc script.
And you know where to get datecalc, since it is mentioned in the "Yesterdays Date/Date Arithmetic" article in our FAQ section which you certainly read before you posted your question.
This was an interesting question. I had never heard of lilian date format before. It looks like IBM went to a lot of trouble to re-invent the wheel. As far as I can see, the only difference between lilian date format and the standard mjd is, well, 100,841 days.
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NAME
dp - parse dates 822-style
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/dp [-form formatfile] [-format string] [-width columns] [-version] [-help] dates ...
DESCRIPTION
Dp is a program that parses dates according to the ARPA Internet standard. It also understands many non-standard formats, such as those
produced by TOPS-20 sites and some UNIX sites using ctime(3). It is useful for seeing how nmh will interpret a date.
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address to be extracted with ease. The string is simply a format string and the file is simply a format file. See mh-format(5) for the
details.
Here is the default format string used by dp:
%<(nodate{text})error: %{text}%|%(putstr(pretty{text}))%>
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date.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
None
SEE ALSO
ap(8), Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC-822)
DEFAULTS
`-format' default as described above
`-width' default to the width of the terminal
CONTEXT
None
BUGS
The argument to the -format switch must be interpreted as a single token by the shell that invokes dp. Therefore, one must usually place
the argument to this switch inside quotes.
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