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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change Date from dd-mmm-yyyy to mm/dd/yyyy Post 302179904 by era on Saturday 29th of March 2008 03:09:47 AM
Old 03-29-2008
Not all date implementations have all this fancy shmancy stuff. As a matter of fact, on HP-UX or Sun, you should be thankful that it even displays today's date.

If you can't get a good date (sorry, couldn't resist), then yes, sed (or cut, or awk, or perl, or nearly any programming language you happen to know the basics of) can be used to move around parts within the string.

(True story from real life: I had a colleague who needed to remove duplicate lines from a file. I intercepted him when he had exported the file to his University account and loaded it into SPSS which he was more familiar with, but couldn't quite get to do this precise task.)

But yes, you need the month name to number mapping somehow. somebody posted one awk solution the other day, but I can't seem to find it now. If the input is just the date then twelve lines of sed will do it.
 

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html::formhandler::field::date

HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date(3pm)

NAME

       HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date - a date field with formats

VERSION

       version 0.40013

SUMMARY

       This field may be used with the jQuery Datepicker plugin.

       You can specify the format for the date using jQuery formatDate strings or DateTime strftime formats. (Default format is format =>
       '%Y-%m-%d'.)

	  d  - "%e" - day of month (no leading zero)
	  dd - "%d" - day of month (two digit)
	  o  - "%{day_of_year}" - day of the year (no leading zeros)
	  oo - "%j" - day of the year (three digit)
	  D  - "%a" - day name short
	  DD - "%A" - day name long
	  m  - "%{day_of_month" - month of year (no leading zero)
	  mm - "%m" - month of year (two digit) "%m"
	  M  - "%b" - month name short
	  MM - "%B" - month name long
	  y  - "%y" - year (two digit)
	  yy - "%Y" - year (four digit)
	  @  - "%s" - Unix timestamp (ms since 01/01/1970)

       For example:

	  has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date', format => "dd/mm/y" );

       or

	  has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date', format => "%d/%m/%y" );

       You can also set 'date_end' and 'date_start' attributes for validation of the date range. Use iso_8601 formats for these dates ("yyyy-mm-
       dd");

	  has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date', date_start => "2009-12-25" );

       Customize error messages 'date_early' and 'date_late':

	  has_field 'start_date' => ( type => 'Date,
	      messages => { date_early => 'Pick a later date',
			    date_late  => 'Pick an earlier date', } );

       If form has 'is_html5' flag active it will render <input type="date" ... /> instead of type="text"

AUTHOR

       FormHandler Contributors - see HTML::FormHandler

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Gerda Shank.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-25				       HTML::FormHandler::Field::Date(3pm)
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