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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Add minutes in Datetime Variable in Unix Post 302364058 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 22nd of October 2009 02:10:42 AM
Old 10-22-2009
Like thegeek said, you can use relative dates with e.g. GNU date. For example:
Code:
$> date -d "$(echo "21/10/2009 23:00:00"|awk -F/ '{OFS="/";print $2,$1,$3}') 3 hours" +'%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S' 
22/10/2009 02:00:00

 

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