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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting calculate the number of days left in a month Post 302223890 by dunryc on Monday 11th of August 2008 04:54:36 PM
Old 08-11-2008
@ikon thanks for that so to calculate the number of days left in the month i used (added)

Quote:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -n "$1" ]
then
dim_m=$1
dim_y=$2
else
eval `date "+dim_m=%m dim_y=%Y"`
fi
_DAYS_IN_MONTH=`cal $dim_m $dim_y | egrep -v '[A-Za-z]' | wc -w`

echo $_DAYS_IN_MONTH

_DATE_TODAY=`date +%d`

echo $_DATE_TODAY

let SUBTRACTION=$_DAYS_IN_MONTH-$_DATE_TODAY
echo $SUBTRACTION
which seem to work great thanks alot

Kind regards dunryc
 

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INTLCALENDAR.SETFIRSTDAYOFWEEK(3)					 1					 INTLCALENDAR.SETFIRSTDAYOFWEEK(3)

IntlCalendar::setFirstDayOfWeek - Set the day on which the week is deemed to start

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public bool IntlCalendar::setFirstDayOfWeek (int $dayOfWeek) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style bool intlcal_set_first_day_of_week (IntlCalendar $cal, int $dayOfWeek) Defines the day of week deemed to start the week. This affects the behavior of fields that depend on the concept of week start and end such as IntlCalendar::FIELD_WEEK_OF_YEAR and IntlCalendar::FIELD_YEAR_WOY. PARAMETERS
o $cal - The IntlCalendar resource. o $dayOfWeek - One of the constants IntlCalendar::DOW_SUNDAY, IntlCalendar::DOW_MONDAY, , IntlCalendar::DOW_SATURDAY. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success. Failure can only happen due to invalid parameters. EXAMPLES
Example #1 IntlCalendar.setFirstDayOfWeek(3) <?php ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Lisbon'); ini_set('intl.default_locale', 'es_ES'); $cal = IntlCalendar::createInstance(); $cal->set(2013, 5 /* June */, 30); // A Sunday var_dump($cal->getFirstDayOfWeek()); // 2 (Monday) echo IntlDateFormatter::formatObject($cal, <<<EOD week of month : 'W' week of year : 'ww EOD ), " "; $cal->setFirstDayOfWeek(IntlCalendar::DOW_SUNDAY); echo IntlDateFormatter::formatObject($cal, <<<EOD week of month : 'W' week of year : 'ww EOD ), " "; The above example will output: int(2) local day of week: 7 week of month : 4 week of year : 26 local day of week: 1 week of month : 5 week of year : 27 PHP Documentation Group INTLCALENDAR.SETFIRSTDAYOFWEEK(3)
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