-- from the Solaris 9 man page for date:
The following is the default form for the "C" locale:
%a %b %e %T %Z %Y
For example,
Fri Dec 23 10:10:42 EST 1988
And, no, you do not necessarily need to use formatting every time you use the date command. If you need output which does not match the default for your current locale then you can either change your locale setting by redefining the LC_TIME environment variable or using formatting strings.
Something else is odd in the OP's envrironment. You can create custom envrionments
-- en_US.ISO8859-1 is standard AFAIK. So on an untweaked system:
The locale defined for LC_TIME in en_US.ISO8859-1 does not vary from locale == C. At least on an out-of-the-box Solaris install. Somebody has customized that locale file on the OP's box. IMO.
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Hi,
I want to know how to change this string to date format
20061102122042 to 02-11-2006 12:20:42
or 02-Nov-2006 12:20:42
Please let me know at the earliest.Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Preetham R. (3 Replies)
Hi All,
this is my second post, last post reply was very helpful.
I have a data that has date in DD/MM/YYYY (07/11/2008) format i want to replace the backslash by a dot(.) so that my awk script can read it inside the C shell script that i have written.
i want to change 07/11/2008 to... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Can someone help me on how to change the date format using sed or any unix command to give my desired output as shown below.
INPUT FILE:
69372,200,20100122T17:56:02,2
53329,500,20100121T11:50:07,2
48865,100,20100114T16:08:16,2
11719,200,20100108T13:32:20,2
DESIRED... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends,
Need your help once again,
I have a variable ( e.g. ${i}) whoch has date in MM/DD/YYYY (E.g. 12/31/2011) format.
I want to change it to DD/MM/YYYY (e.g. 31/12/2011) format.
Request you to guide me as we are unable to do the same.
Thanks in advance
Anu. (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a file that every line starts with the date and time. The format is like YYYYMMDDHHMM and I woulk like to change it to MM/DD/YY<space>HH:MM.
I tried to figure out a way to do it with sed, but I don't know how I could reorganize the digits of the first format. Does anyone have any... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I was looking for a script to change the date from one format to other. A search in the forum gave me the below script as a result.
#! /bin/ksh
format=YYYYMMDD
YEAR=${format%????}
DAY=${format#??????}
MON=${format#$YEAR}
MON=${MON%$DAY}
echo $MON/$DAY/$YEAR
I got it... (2 Replies)
Hi
I wish to change date from one format to another in unix.
eg: INPUT DATE: 2013159 (YEAR & NUMBER OF DAY)
OUTPUT DATE required: 20130608 (YYYYMMDD)
how to do it ?
Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
need some more help please
i have a large file and
i want to change just the date format
with awk or sed
from this
yyyy-mm-dd
2016-04-15 8.30
2016-04-15 7.30
2016-04-13 7.30
2016-04-11 8.30
2016-04-11 7.30
2016-04-08 8.30
2016-04-08 7.30
2016-04-06... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: bob123
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date::parse
Date::Parse(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Date::Parse(3)NAME
Date::Parse - Parse date strings into time values
SYNOPSIS
use Date::Parse;
$time = str2time($date);
($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$zone) = strptime($date);
DESCRIPTION
"Date::Parse" provides two routines for parsing date strings into time values.
str2time(DATE [, ZONE])
"str2time" parses "DATE" and returns a unix time value, or undef upon failure. "ZONE", if given, specifies the timezone to assume when
parsing if the date string does not specify a timezome.
strptime(DATE [, ZONE])
"strptime" takes the same arguments as str2time but returns an array of values "($ss,$mm,$hh,$day,$month,$year,$zone)". Elements are
only defined if they could be extracted from the date string. The $zone element is the timezone offset in seconds from GMT. An empty
array is returned upon failure.
MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT
Date::Parse is capable of parsing dates in several languages, these are English, French, German and Italian. Changing the language is done
via a static method call, for example
Date::Parse->language('German');
will cause Date::Parse to attempt to parse any subsequent dates in German.
This is only a first pass, I am considering changing this to be
$lang = Date::Language->new('German');
$lang->str2time("25 Jun 1996 21:09:55 +0100");
I am open to suggestions on this.
EXAMPLE DATES
Below is a sample list of dates that are known to be parsable with Date::Parse
1995:01:24T09:08:17.1823213 ISO-8601
1995-01-24T09:08:17.1823213
Wed, 16 Jun 94 07:29:35 CST Comma and day name are optional
Thu, 13 Oct 94 10:13:13 -0700
Wed, 9 Nov 1994 09:50:32 -0500 (EST) Text in ()'s will be ignored.
21 dec 17:05 Will be parsed in the current time zone
21-dec 17:05
21/dec 17:05
21/dec/93 17:05
1999 10:02:18 "GMT"
16 Nov 94 22:28:20 PST
BUGS
When both the month and the date are specified in the date as numbers they are always parsed assuming that the month number comes before
the date. This is the usual format used in American dates.
The reason why it is like this and not dynamic is that it must be deterministic. Several people have suggested using the current locale,
but this will not work as the date being parsed may not be in the format of the current locale.
My plans to address this, which will be in a future release, is to allow the programmer to state what order they want these values parsed
in.
AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.0 2002-06-06 Date::Parse(3)