Date command does not work in a KSH when called from Cron Post: 302312176

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pltimefmt

PLTIMEFMT(3plplot)						    PLplot API							PLTIMEFMT(3plplot)

NAME

       pltimefmt - Set format for date / time labels

SYNOPSIS

       pltimefmt(fmt)

DESCRIPTION

       Sets the format for date / time labels. To enable date / time format labels see the options to plbox(3plplot) and plenv(3plplot).

       Redacted form: pltimefmt(fmt)

       This function is used in example 29.

ARGUMENTS

       fmt (const char *, fmt)
	      This string is passed directly to the system strftime. See the system documentation for a full list of conversion specifications for
	      your system. All conversion specifications take the form of a '%' character followed by further conversion specification	character.
	      All other text is printed as-is. Common options include: %c: The preferred date and time representation for the current locale.  %d:
	      The day of the month as a decimal number.  %H: The hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock.  %j: The day of  the  year  as  a
	      decimal  number.	 %m: The month as a decimal number.  %M: The minute as a decimal number.  %S: The second as a decimal number.  %y:
	      The year as a decimal number without a century.  %Y: The year  as a decimal number including a century.

AUTHORS

       Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot.  This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook  source  of  the
       PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO

       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.

								   August, 2012 						PLTIMEFMT(3plplot)

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