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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple date formatting? Post 302312367 by muay_tb on Friday 1st of May 2009 05:55:11 AM
Old 05-01-2009
Simple date formatting?
Hi guys,

I have some embedded perl within my shell script to get me the modification time/date of a file which returns me the following string:

Fri May 1 09:52:58 2009

I have managed to get the bits i need such as 1-May-2009, but what i would prefer is 010509 instead...

Here is my Perl:

Code:
get_time()
{
        perl -e '
        use File::stat;
        use POSIX qw(strftime);
        use Time::localtime;

$file="$ARGV[0]";
$date_string = scalar ctime(stat($file)->mtime);

my ($wkday,$month,$day,$time,$year) = split(/\s+/, $date_string);
print "$day-$month-$year\n";
print "file $file updated at $date_string\n";
' "$1"
}

get_time $1

Basically I'm looking for a way to get the modification time in the format 'DD-MM-YY' but have failed so far...any ideas guys??

I am using Solaris so some date functions may not be available...

Before i am re-directed to a search lol i know there are already utilties for date calc but this doesnt match any of those suggestions.
 

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LEARN ABOUT PHP

date_parse_from_format

DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)						 1						 DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)

date_parse_from_format - Get info about given date formatted according to the specified format

SYNOPSIS

       array date_parse_from_format (string  $format, string  $date)

DESCRIPTION

	Returns associative array with detailed info about given date.

PARAMETERS

	      o $format
		- Format accepted by DateTime.createFromFormat(3).

	      o $date
		- String representing the date.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns associative array with detailed info about given date.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      date_parse_from_format(3) example

	      <?php
	      $date = "6.1.2009 13:00+01:00";
	      print_r(date_parse_from_format("j.n.Y H:iP", $date));
	      ?>

	      The above example will output:

	      Array
	      (
		  [year] => 2009
		  [month] => 1
		  [day] => 6
		  [hour] => 13
		  [minute] => 0
		  [second] => 0
		  [fraction] =>
		  [warning_count] => 0
		  [warnings] => Array
		      (
		      )

		  [error_count] => 0
		  [errors] => Array
		      (
		      )

		  [is_localtime] => 1
		  [zone_type] => 1
		  [zone] => -60
		  [is_dst] =>
	      )

SEE ALSO

       DateTime.createFromFormat(3), checkdate(3).

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