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05-05-2008

ORatjeuh

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Convert String to Date

Hi,

I have a String input parameter like this: 20080430 (YYYYMMDD). Inside
my korn shell script I need to add one day to this date.

Code:

L_TRADE_DAY=$1
let L_TODAY=$L_TRADE_DAY+1

Offcourse this raises a problem at the end of a month. 20080430 + 1 gives 20080431 instead of 20080501.

What is a good way to prevent this? I really would like to avoid PERL and also AWK is missing mktime,strftime on my Solaris 5.8 Generic_117350-49 server.

Regards
B.

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