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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Increment date variable Post 302911773 by Don Cragun on Sunday 3rd of August 2014 12:43:49 AM
Old 08-03-2014
Some people may suggest calling date twice, but if you do that just before and just after a change in the minute, the two values won't be related the way you want them. (As a close to worst case, that could give you values two hours and 1 minute apart instead of one hour apart.) Try something like:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
read d h m <<-EOF
    $(date '+%F %H %M')
EOF
now="$d $h:$m:00"
next="$d $(printf '%02d:%02d:00' $((${h#0} + 1)) $m)"

This was tested using the Korn shell, but will work with any shell that performs POSIX standard shell command substitutions and parameter expansions (including bash and ksh, among others). To see that it works, you'll need to either trace what it is doing or print the results.

It won't work after 11pm, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for you requirements.
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PX_DATE2STRING(3)														 PX_DATE2STRING(3)

px_date2string - Converts a date into a string.

SYNOPSIS
string px_date2string (resource $pxdoc, int $value, string $format) DESCRIPTION
Turns a date as it stored in the paradox file into human readable format. Paradox dates are the number of days since 1.1.0000. This func- tion is just for convenience. It can be easily replaced by some math and the calendar functions as demonstrated in the example below. PARAMETERS
o $pxdoc - Resource identifier of the paradox database as returned by px_new(3). o $value - Value as stored in paradox database field of type PX_FIELD_DATE. o $format - String format similar to the format used by date(3). The placeholders support by this function is a subset of those supported by date(3) (Y, y, m, n, d, j, L). RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Turn a paradox date into a human readable form <?php $px = px_new(); /* make up a date as it could be stored in */ /* a date field of a paradox db. */ /* 700000 days since 1.1.0000. */ $days = 700000; /* Use the calendar functions to print a */ /* human readable format of the date */ echo jdtogregorian($days+1721425)." "; /* px_date2string() outputs the same */ echo px_date2string($px, $days, "n/d/Y")." "; px_delete($px); ?> The above example will output: 7/15/1917 7/15/1917 SEE ALSO
px_timestamp2string(3), jdtogregorian(3). PHP Documentation Group PX_DATE2STRING(3)
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