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Old 08-08-2011
Determine previous time in minutes

I have several logs with where the time stamp in the logs are "YYYYMMDDHHMM".

I would like to check the last line in each file to make sure the entry is less than 5 minutes old.
My timezone is EST5EDT so the following will work for 1 hour. But I need something easy for 5 minutes ago.
Code:
STALE_TIME=$(TZ=$(date +%Z)+5; date '+%Y%m%d%H%M')

I am using ksh and do not have gnu or ksh94.

Is there an easy way I can find what the time was 5 minutes ago?

Example1: current time: 201108081607
stale time: 201108081602

Example2: current time: 201201010001
stale time: 201112312356

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-10-2011 at 10:35 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
 

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BATTERY-STATS(5)						File Formats Manual						  BATTERY-STATS(5)

NAME
battery-stats - collected battery statistics DESCRIPTION
The battery-stats contains statistics about battery charge over time, as collected by the battery-stats-collector (8) daemon. FORMAT
Each line in the file represents one sample and is of the form: <seconds> <charge%> <powermode> <UTC-date> <UTC-time> separated by spaces and terminated by a newline. Where: seconds is the number of seconds since 1st Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC charge% is the battery charge a number between 0 and 100 powermode indicates the power mode: 0 A/C off 1 On battery 2 On backup power UTC-date a human-readable date in the format YYYY/MM/DD. Note that this is in UTC, not the local or system timezone. UTC-time a human-readable time in the format HH:MM:SS (using a 24-hour clock). Note that this is in UTC, not the local or system timezone. minutes-left is the BIOS estimate of how many minutes of running time the battery would provide. This may be unreliable, depending on the BIOS through which it was collected. EXAMPLE
A battery under charge might result in the following samples: 1032651245 27 1 2002/09/21 23:34:05 94 1032651275 28 1 2002/09/21 23:34:35 97 1032651305 29 1 2002/09/21 23:35:05 100 1032651335 30 1 2002/09/21 23:35:35 103 1032651365 30 1 2002/09/21 23:36:05 106 FILES
The default set-up is to save battery statistics in /var/log and rotate the logs weekly, which results in this set of files: /var/log/battery-stats - current (most recent) statistics /var/log/battery-stats.[0-9]+ - less recent statistics /var/log/battery-stats.[0-9]+.gz - ancient statistics SEE ALSO
battery-graph(1), battery-stats-collector(8). AUTHOR
Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.com> September 23, 2002 BATTERY-STATS(5)
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