I don't think that the date command is intended for that. I can sort-of get it to work by abusing the timezone concept. Note that I had to switch signs.
Hi Friends :)
I have a long file having fields in the form :
Field1 yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss Duration(Sec)
line 1) 123123 05/11/30 12:12:56 145
line 2) 145235 05/11/30 12:15:15 30
line 3) 145264 05/11/30 13:14:56 178
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I want to subtract yy/dd/dd hh:mm:ss in line (2) from yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss in... (1 Reply)
Hello,
Im writing a script using the ksh shell. I have 2 variables in the script:
CURRTIME
PREVTIME
Example, if CURRTIME=13:00, I want to somehow calculate what the time was an hour ago so that PREVTIME=12:00
Right now I have the following:
CURRTIME=`date +%H:%M`
How can I... (4 Replies)
i have the time 20100421043335 in format (date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S),and i want to be able to get the previous time 2 minutes ago,which is
20100421043135 (9 Replies)
need some help on the below requirement:
File1:
SV,22,20100501140000,JFK,RUH
SV,29,20100501073000,BOM,RUH
SV,29,20100501073000,SIN,RUH
third filed is datetime which is of the format (yyyymmddhh24miss)
File2
JFK,+,0500
BLR,-,0530
SIN,-,0800
for every line of file 1, take 4... (9 Replies)
Hi,
Need to subtract 5 seconds after syncing my Linux server from NTP like;
#ntpdate time.myorg.int.
This script will only run once in each morning at 9 AM.
Please help me. (4 Replies)
Hello All ,
Please support for below request
how to change format and subtract time and date and get average.
xxx 13-OCT-15 11.32.18.241000 AM 13-OCT-15 11.35.49.089080 AM
xxx 13-OCT-15 11.32.24.000000 AM 13-OCT-15 11.45.17.810904 AM
xxx 13-OCT-15 11.32.25.232000 AM ... (1 Reply)
INPUT:
16:45:51 10051 77845
16:45:51 10051 77845
16:46:52 10051 77846
16:46:53 10051 77846
Match the last PID then subtract second line time with first line.
Please help me with any command or script. (3 Replies)
SunOS -s 5.10 Generic_147440-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
Hi,
In a folder, there are files. I have a script which reads the current date and subtract the modification date of each file.
How do I achieve this?
Regards,
Joe (2 Replies)
current date command runs well
awk -v t="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat
subtract 30 days fails
awk -v t="$(date --date="-30days" +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat
awk command in hp unix subtract 30 days automatically from current date without date illegal option error... (20 Replies)
Discussion started by: kmarcus
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)