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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sleep Until Query Post 302590049 by frappa on Friday 13th of January 2012 04:06:17 PM
Old 01-13-2012
Hi kiitmale,

Code:
man date

lists all available date format specifications;

in your case
Code:
date '+%H:%M'

should do the trick (but read man date as the implementation of date on a commercial unix system may be different).

The variable that stores the date may be assigned just as:
Code:
x=`date '+%H:%M'`

then the strings ascii comparison may be done:
Code:
if [ "${x}" \> "${y}" } ; then
   # ...something
else
   # ...something
fi

remember to escape string disequality operatpors with a backslash.

you may also see Other Comparison Operators

see ya
fra
 

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DATETIME.FORMAT(3)							 1							DATETIME.FORMAT(3)

DateTime::format - Returns date formatted according to given format

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public string DateTime::format (string $format) DESCRIPTION
string DateTimeImmutable::format (string $format) string DateTimeInterface::format (string $format) Procedural style string date_format (DateTimeInterface $object, string $format) Returns date formatted according to given format. PARAMETERS
o $object -Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create(3) o $format - Format accepted by date(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns the formatted date string on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 DateTime.format(3) example Object oriented style <?php $date = new DateTime('2000-01-01'); echo $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); ?> Procedural style <?php $date = date_create('2000-01-01'); echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i:s'); ?> The above example will output: 2000-01-01 00:00:00 NOTES
This method does not use locales. All output is in English. SEE ALSO
date(3). PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.FORMAT(3)
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