Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Date Reformatting function
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Date Reformatting function Post 302914309 by Don Cragun on Sunday 24th of August 2014 03:03:08 PM
Old 08-24-2014
I don't have GNU date on my system. The Linux date man page available on this forum says:
Quote:
DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb
2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or even "next Thursday". A date string may
contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative
time, relative date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day.
The date string format is more complex than is easily documented here but is fully
described in the info documentation.
Since you have access to the GNU date utility, I assume you can find "the info documentation" that fully describes the date string format on your system. It isn't available on my system.

The main problem you'll need to resolve is how to tell the difference between an MMDD versus DDMM input or how to rearrange your input into the order that date will interpret correctly for the input format you're given.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Date function question

hi guys! just want to ask if you could help me with the sript i'm working on. i need to automatically generate a summarized report everyday for all transactions the day before and ftp it to another machine. my only problem is that i need to name the file as the date yesterday. for example if i... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: crpalermo
12 Replies

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Yesterday's date function

I am using this function to calculate yesterday's date and return it in the following format: Jan 09 date '+%b %d %Y' | { read MONTH DAY YEAR DAY=`expr "$DAY" - 1` case "$DAY" in 0) MONTH=`expr "$MONTH" - 1` case "$MONTH" in ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ssmiths001
4 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

date function

hi, I have to ftp previous days file from a directory to another location. The name of the files are like "xxx20060225" (yyyymmdd format) "xxx20060226" ls -lrt xxx*| tail -2| head -1 will give me the file, but if i could get anything... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: abey
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Wrong date function

Hi, I am getting some very strange output when using date function in PERL on Solaris. Infact the month portion is wrong and it is 1 less then the current, means today it is responding as month =3 , andthis should be 4 ------> April Any help my code is ($day, $month, $year) =... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Asteroid
3 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Date Function

Hi, My file format is: E102,0,21-04-2007,0,2/25/1994,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620 E103,0,21/04/2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620 E104,0,04/21/2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620 E105,0,21-APR-2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: charandevu
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Date Function

Hi, My file format is: E102,0,21-04-2007,0,2/25/1994,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620 E103,0,21/04/2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620 E104,0,04/21/2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620 E105,0,21-APR-2007,0,2/2/1996,E003,A,125400,10450,60.2884620... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: charandevu
1 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Date function

I read man page for etc/shadow field.. on the 8th field, i assume that's the field to change account expire date. my question is: What value does the 8th field keep? i assume it's 13514 instead of "Date" value such as 11/10/08. on the man page, it said: " expire value = 13514 = jan 1,... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: c00kie88
11 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Date reformatting

I currently have the following file containing sample values for a number of dates: Loc1 04 Jan 2007 0.95 0.9532 Loc1 05 Jan 2007 0.95 0.9513 Loc1 06 Jan 2007 0.95 0.9535 This continues for all months of the year and spans across several years. I am trying to reformat the dates so that... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
2 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Date reformatting

I have a file with temperature measurements: Loc1,20090102,71.55 Loc1,20090103,71.65 Loc1,20090104,71.55 Loc1,20090105,71.54 Loc1,20090106,71.54 However, to load this into a database I would like to reformat the dates (column 2) from the yyyymmdd format to the yyyy-mm-dd format. I have... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
2 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Date reformatting

I have been reformatting dates from a data file to make them mysql compliant. 31-10-2011 Loc1 1-11-2011 Loc2 The first can be captured by this: sed -i '' -e "s#\(..\)-\(..\)-\(....\)#\3-\2-\1#" data.txt and leads to: 2011-10-31 Loc1 The second line is captured as follows: sed -i... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: figaro
2 Replies
DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)						 1						 DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)

date_parse_from_format - Get info about given date formatted according to the specified format

SYNOPSIS
array date_parse_from_format (string $format, string $date) DESCRIPTION
Returns associative array with detailed info about given date. PARAMETERS
o $format - Format accepted by DateTime.createFromFormat(3). o $date - String representing the date. RETURN VALUES
Returns associative array with detailed info about given date. EXAMPLES
Example #1 date_parse_from_format(3) example <?php $date = "6.1.2009 13:00+01:00"; print_r(date_parse_from_format("j.n.Y H:iP", $date)); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [year] => 2009 [month] => 1 [day] => 6 [hour] => 13 [minute] => 0 [second] => 0 [fraction] => [warning_count] => 0 [warnings] => Array ( ) [error_count] => 0 [errors] => Array ( ) [is_localtime] => 1 [zone_type] => 1 [zone] => -60 [is_dst] => ) SEE ALSO
DateTime.createFromFormat(3), checkdate(3). PHP Documentation Group DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:13 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy