Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Date Question
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Date Question Post 302141665 by fpmurphy on Sunday 21st of October 2007 06:58:26 PM
Old 10-21-2007
Convert the date to a Julian date. The day of the week can be obtained from the remainder of the division of the Julian date by 7. Zero (0) represents Monday.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

date question

hi, how do i get the last day of the current date or a given date using unix. for e.g. if i run the command/script on 1st feb 2002 i should get 28 th feb 2002. thanks !! AnkuR. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ankurgupta
3 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Date function question

hi guys! just want to ask if you could help me with the sript i'm working on. i need to automatically generate a summarized report everyday for all transactions the day before and ftp it to another machine. my only problem is that i need to name the file as the date yesterday. for example if i... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: crpalermo
12 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

date question

I have a little bash shell script which is used to backup files (via cron) to an NASLite server every 7 days. a=$(date +%b_%d_%Y) tar -lcpf /tmp/laptopbackup.$a.tar /home ncftpput 192.168.0.5 /Disk-1/laptop /tmp/laptopbackup.$a.tar The filename thus includes the date on which it is made,... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: rdeschene3
3 Replies

4. AIX

Date question

I am creating a shell script and have a question about how to determine yesterdays date. In my script, I can determine today by: today=`date '+%Y%m%d'` but I am not sure how to determine yesterday. In other languages, I would just subtract one from today, but I don't know how to do that... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: dsimpg1
1 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Date question

hi guys, i've got a simple one.. date_time="`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`" gives me the system's date and time... which my script will use this variable to run the data on this date... my question is... if now, i want to run the script for data's that are like 6 months back... how can i... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: 12yearold
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Date Scripting Question

I am trying to append a portion of a file with a date on it that changes daily to a temp file. Here are my commands: set DATE = ('date +%Y%m%d_sum.log') cat $HOME/right/$DATE > /export/home/temp.txt Here is the error I keep receiving: cat: cannot open /temp/usr/nedaniel/right/date... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: BigDawg32
6 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Date format question

I have a string that looks like this: 2008 04 09 18 45 30 0 I would like to convert it to a date format like this: Wed Apr 09 18:45:30.000 GMT 2008 I have been searching all over and can't find anything to help me. I am using ksh on a sun solaris unix machine. Thank you. Allyson (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ajgwin
2 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Another Date Question - Sorry

I have been out of the UNIX World for a number of years and none of my reference books seem to be helping e with this seemingly simple question. How can I manipulate the below command to reflect the previous day and not the current date? the command is: elm -s “SAP prs for `date... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: McRae
4 Replies

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

echo date question

Whats the difference between using date in these 2 methods? How exactly does the shell handle the first one different from the second one? $ echo $date $ echo $(date) Tue Aug 16 03:10:25 EDT 2011 (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
5 Replies

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Regarding question for GNU date

Hello All, Greetings all !! I have a query here, following are the points on same(Adding today's is 31st August 2016 for future reference). 1st Scenario: So while doing some work on GNU date, I wanted to check what was the month(in numbers) by GNU date so I have done following. date... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: RavinderSingh13
2 Replies
widget_calendar(n)					    widget::calendar Megawidget 					widget_calendar(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
widget_calendar - widget::calendar Megawidget SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4 package require Tk 8.4 package require widget ?3.0? widget::calendar pathname ?options? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This package provides a calendar megawidget (snidget). widget::calendar pathname ?options? WIDGET OPTIONS
-command A script to evaluate when a date was selected. -dateformat The format of the date that is returned. Default: %m/%d/%Y. -firstday Set first day the week, Either sunday or monday. It defaults to monday. -font Select the font used in the widget. It defaults to Helvetica 9. -highlightcolor Selects the background color for the day that has been selected. Default: #FFCC00 -language Specify language of the calendar contents. The language is specified by abbreviations of the languge, for example: en - english, de - german ... It defaults to en. Supported languages: en, de, fr, it, es, pt, ru, sv, zh, fi -shadecolor Selects the color of the parts that have a shaded background. Default: #888888 -showpast Specify if the past shall be shown. It is a boolean value and defaults to 1. -textvariable Specifies the name of a variable whose value is linked to the entry widget's contents. Whenever the variable changes value, the widget's contents are updated, and vice versa. WIDGET COMMAND
pathname get ?what? Returns a part of the selected date or 'all'. The argument what selects the part. Valid values for what are: day, month, year and all. 'all' is the default and returns the complete date in the format given with -dateformat. DEFAULT BINDINGS
On creation of the calendar widget the following bindings are installed. o Up - Move to week before current date o Down - Move to week after current date o Left - Move to day before current date o Right - Move to day after current date o Control-Left - Move to month before current date o Control-Right - Move to month after current date o Control-Up - Move to year before current date o Control-Down - Move to year after current date EXAMPLE
package require widget::calendar ; # or widget::all set t [widget::calendar .t] pack $t -fill x -expand 1 KEYWORDS
megawidget, snit, widget widget 0.93 widget_calendar(n)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:28 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy