Thank you for your replies. I found a solution with BSD date, though admittedly it is not as pretty as with GNU date. I am posting here in case someone finds it useful one day:
GNU version:
BDS version:
Cheers,
Tom
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I know there are some posts on getting the time with milliseconds included and I realize unix may not be the best on this.
I have seem some posts where its advised to install the GNU date.
Any one know where I can download this as I am struggling to find it.
Alternatively - if you have... (5 Replies)
I use GNU (parted)set to change boot flags when doing multibooting.
Alas, FreeBSD does not have GNU parted, out of the box.
Is there a way to set/remove flags quickly and easily from the command line in BSD? I'm still learning all the 'unique' BSD utilities. (7 Replies)
Should work in any shell, but requires GNU date, although GNU date seems only to be happy for input dates between 1902 and 2037, inclusive (49673 days).
Assume $a and $b hold two dates, e.g.
set a=2010-03-27
set b=2010-04-04
Marginally faster:
iterator: seq -f "$a +%1.0f days" 1 50000 |... (0 Replies)
It's easy as pie to get the date minus one day on opensolaris:
date -d "-1 day" +"%Y%m%d"run this command on our crappy Solaris 10 machines however (which I'm guessing doesn't have GNU date running on it) and you get:
date: illegal option -- d
date: illegal option -- 1
date: illegal option --... (5 Replies)
Firstly, I would like to apologize if this is not the appropriate sub-forum to post about GNU/BSD makefile scripting. Though my code is in C++, because I am focusing on the makefile I thought it would go better in shell scripting. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Secondly, I am not interested in... (0 Replies)
Hello All,
Greetings all !!
I have a query here, following are the points on same(Adding today's is 31st August 2016 for future reference).
1st Scenario: So while doing some work on GNU date, I wanted to check what was the month(in numbers) by GNU date so I have done following.
date... (2 Replies)
So as I write this today is two days after the clocks go back here in the UK. I have a script that worked last week. Yesterday it developed a bug. I eventually found the culprit is Gnu Date.
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: apmcd47
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datefield
datefield(n) Tk datefield widget datefield(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
datefield - Tk datefield widget
SYNOPSIS
package require Tk
package require datefield ?0.2?
::datefield::datefield widgetpath ?options?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The datefield package provides the datefield widget which is an enhanced text entry widget for the purpose of date entry. Only valid dates
of the form MM/DD/YYYY can be entered.
The datefield widget is, in fact, just an entry widget with specialized bindings. This means all the command and options for an entry wid-
get apply equally here.
COMMANDS
::datefield::datefield widgetpath ?options?
Creates and configures a date field widget.
OPTIONS
See the entry manual entry for details on all available options.
EXAMPLE
package require datefield
wm title . "Datefield example"
proc DayOfWeek {args} {
set now [clock scan $::myDate]
set ::myDate2 [clock format $now -format %A]
}
trace variable myDate w DayOfWeek
::datefield::datefield .df -textvariable myDate
label .l1 -text "Enter a date:" -anchor e
label .l2 -text "That date is a:" -anchor e
label .l3 -textvariable myDate2 -relief sunken -width 12
grid .l1 .df -sticky ew
grid .l2 .l3 -sticky ew
focus .df
SEE ALSO
clock(n), entry(n)
KEYWORDS
clock, entry, widget
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) Keith Vetter <keith@ebook.gemstar.com>
datefield 0.2 datefield(n)