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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting date DD MM YYYY to DD MON YYYY Post 302510987 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 5th of April 2011 12:23:30 PM
Old 04-05-2011
the 2nd attempt looks OK, except your format is wrong, All these worked for me:
Code:
date -d "26 Mar 2011" +'%Y%m%d' 
date -d "Mar 26 2011" +'%Y%m%d' 
date -d "Mar-26-2011" +'%Y%m%d' 
date -d "26-Mar-2011 00:00" +'%Y%m%d'

 

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rdate

rdate(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 rdate(1M)

NAME

       rdate - set system date from a remote host

SYNOPSIS

       rdate hostname

DESCRIPTION

       rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as an argument. You must have the authorization solaris.system.date on the local
       system. Typically, rdate is used in a startup script.

       rdate requests are responded to by the "time" service on the specified host. To enable the "time" service, use the following commands:

	 svcadm enable time:stream
	 svcadm enable time:dgram

USAGE

       The rdate command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWrcmdc 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       inetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P)

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