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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Difference of dates Post 302932543 by sea on Thursday 22nd of January 2015 08:02:47 AM
Old 01-22-2015
See date --help for your system specific date options.

On my RedHat based system Fedora, i could use either one of these two lines to get your 'now' time:
Code:
NOW=$(date +%F%T|sed s,-,,g|sed s,:,,g)
NOW=$(date +%d%m%Y%H%M)

However, if you can define the date-order yourself, I'd recomend to use this format: yyyymmddhhmmd, especially for logfiles.
You can use signs to make it better readable, but for doing math, they hinder.

Code:
NOW=$(date +"%d.%m.%Y_%H:%M")
echo $NOW

22.01.2015_14:01

hth

Last edited by rbatte1; 01-22-2015 at 10:57 AM..
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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)
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