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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Yesterday in UNIX Post 302935212 by chaima.trimeche on Friday 13th of February 2015 12:29:31 PM
Old 02-13-2015
Question Yesterday in UNIX

Hi,
I want to set a cron job with the yesterday date in a unix server (solaris).
  • I tried TZ=CST+24 date +%Y%m%d but i had TZ=CST+24: not found
  • I tried `perl -mPOSIX -e 'print POSIX::strftime("%Y%m%d",localtime(time() - 86400)) '` it works but I'm not sure that all the clients have perl in their machines.
  • date -v and date -d don't work only -u and -a options work with date in unix:
    date: illegal option -- d
    usage: date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
    date [-u] [+format]
    date -a [-]sss[.fff]

Anyone has an idea please.
Thanks
 

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NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)

NAME
NetSDS::Util::DateTime - common date/time processing routines SYNOPSIS
use NetSDS::Util::DateTime; print "Current date: " . date_now(); DESCRIPTION
This package provides set of routines for date and time processing. EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
date_now_array([TIME]) Returns array of date items for given date. If source date is not set current date used. date_now([TIME]) Return [given] date as string. 2001-12-23 14:39:53 date_now_iso8601([TIME]) Return date as ISO 8601 string. 20011223T14:39:53Z <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime> date_strip(DATE) Trim miliseconds from date. date_date(DATE) Trim time part from date. date_time(DATE) Trim date part from date. time_from_string($string) Return parsed date/time structure. date_from_string($string) Return date from string representation. date_inc([INCREMENT, [TIME]]) Return date incremented with given number of seconds. date_inc_string([INCREMENT, [TIME]]) Return string representation of date incremented with given number of seconds. EXAMPLES
None yet BUGS
Unknown yet SEE ALSO
Date::Parse, Date::Format TODO
Import stuff from Wono project AUTHOR
Valentyn Solomko <val@pere.org.ua> Michael Bochkaryov <misha@rattler.kiev.ua> perl v5.12.4 2011-08-27 NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)
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