1. Shell Programming and Scripting

ok here is a perl date question not asked befor. i know i am feeling small for not knowing. BUT!!!! $ENV{TZ}="US/Central"; ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(); how can i do the addition to year so i can get the current year w/o going $ntime=$year+1900;... (3 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hi, how to convert the localtime to unixtime? i have date from the date command in unix i want to convert it into unixtime thnx (2 Replies)

3. Solaris

I have this command in my script and it's working fine with AIX: ls init?*.ora 2>/dev/null | egrep -i -e "" the same command is failing in Solaris 10. does anyone have better idea how to make it work for both ? Thanks (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Strange behaviour of the strftime() function from gawk (3.1.5): $ awk 'BEGIN{print strftime("%T", 3600)}' > 02:00:00 $ awk 'BEGIN{print strftime("%T", 0)}' > 01:00:00 Obviously something with DST but I can not figure out why? To me 3600 epoch seconds remains 01:00, DST or not. From... (2 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I am facing a warning "Argument "" isn't numeric in localtime at" what i m using is below my $timestamp = Timestamp(time); go_log("###############$timestamp###############"); can some one please suggest the way to avoid this message :confused: (6 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Experts, I know how to handle normal date changes in perl. Most of my requirement are full filled with following: $date1 = strftime "%Y%m%d",localtime; $date2 = strftime "%Y%m%d",localtime(time -24 * 60 * 60); $date3 = strftime "%Y%m%d",localtime(time +24 * 60 * 60); $date4 = strftime... (4 Replies)

7. Programming

HI, i wish to convert a millsec value to a readable string format. the one option is to use strftime. However this is a bit costly (1-5 micros). is there a a faster way to do so with just string manipulation (Note i have the date object which has the time details but wish o avoid strftime) (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm new to perl scripting and am trying it out. I have a file written in the following format: myfile-MMDDYY where MM is the number of the Month; DD the Day and YY the last two of the year... (Apologies for dumbing this down; I'm trying to be clear). There is a new file put onto my... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, a=$1 ## b=`echo "86400 * $a"|bc` `perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime);$now_string = strftime "%d/%m/%Y", localtime(time-$b); print $now_string,"\n";' > date_file` but im always getting current date; can any one suggest me any the improvement the above works fine if i use some thing... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

cat file 41285.000034722223 41285.000567129631 41285.000069444446 41285.001122685186 41285.000092592592 41285.001620370371 41285.000138888892 41285.00340277778 41285.000185185185 41285.000405092593 41285.000196759262 41285.000856481478 41285.000208333331 41285.000717592593... (5 Replies)