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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Friendz.. plz help me on this date function. Post 302216409 by fsahog on Friday 18th of July 2008 09:14:26 PM
Old 07-18-2008
Please understand that I do not mean to distract from your desire for a script, but this is an excellent example, I think, of something which is bothersome with scripting but simple and straightforward with a C compiler. time(), localtime(), and the other date subroutines all give us excellent means to do this. perl or php also let you do fun things with dates. the UNIX "date" function kinda works with "now", unless of course you use the [-d|--date] option, but I don't see a simple way to make that work either. I had thought that if "date -d" would accept a julian date, then one could subtract a value related to the +%w value, but my CentOS 5 date program wouldn't take a julian date as input.

Sorry, I guess I just spoiled myself by writing C to do things like this. IMHO you might want to consider writing something in C, then using it as your date generator. If you are not comfortable with that, then perhaps perl or php might be helpful. Both are very powerful tools.
 

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PX_DATE2STRING(3)														 PX_DATE2STRING(3)

px_date2string - Converts a date into a string.

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string px_date2string (resource $pxdoc, int $value, string $format) DESCRIPTION
Turns a date as it stored in the paradox file into human readable format. Paradox dates are the number of days since 1.1.0000. This func- tion is just for convenience. It can be easily replaced by some math and the calendar functions as demonstrated in the example below. PARAMETERS
o $pxdoc - Resource identifier of the paradox database as returned by px_new(3). o $value - Value as stored in paradox database field of type PX_FIELD_DATE. o $format - String format similar to the format used by date(3). The placeholders support by this function is a subset of those supported by date(3) (Y, y, m, n, d, j, L). RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Turn a paradox date into a human readable form <?php $px = px_new(); /* make up a date as it could be stored in */ /* a date field of a paradox db. */ /* 700000 days since 1.1.0000. */ $days = 700000; /* Use the calendar functions to print a */ /* human readable format of the date */ echo jdtogregorian($days+1721425)." "; /* px_date2string() outputs the same */ echo px_date2string($px, $days, "n/d/Y")." "; px_delete($px); ?> The above example will output: 7/15/1917 7/15/1917 SEE ALSO
px_timestamp2string(3), jdtogregorian(3). PHP Documentation Group PX_DATE2STRING(3)
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