10-19-2009
I don't think that UNIX has any built in functionality for doing date math but there are plenty of sites on the web detailing various ways of attacking it. I use a function written in C myself but I cannot give it to you as it was written for the company I work for so is copyrighted.
However here is a link to a site with a C program you can compile that will do date subtraction: -
Date math in Linux shell script? :: Free Tech Support :: Ask Dave Taylor!
There are also posts on this site that do it pretty well in shell if you aren't concerned about leap years and so on.
Good luck
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NAME
dp - parse dates 822-style
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/dp [-form formatfile] [-format string] [-width columns] [-version] [-help] dates ...
DESCRIPTION
Dp is a program that parses dates according to the ARPA Internet standard. It also understands many non-standard formats, such as those
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address to be extracted with ease. The string is simply a format string and the file is simply a format file. See mh-format(5) for the
details.
Here is the default format string used by dp:
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date.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
None
SEE ALSO
ap(8), Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (RFC-822)
DEFAULTS
`-format' default as described above
`-width' default to the width of the terminal
CONTEXT
None
BUGS
The argument to the -format switch must be interpreted as a single token by the shell that invokes dp. Therefore, one must usually place
the argument to this switch inside quotes.
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