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02-13-2015

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Hi.

For some versions of ksh built-in command printf:

Code:

...
A %(date-format)T format can be:
use to treat an argument as a date/time string and to format the
date/time according to the date-format as defined for the
date(1) command.
...
man ksh, section printf

Code:

printf "%(%Y-%m-%d)T\n" "yesterday"

would print ( for today = Fri Feb 13 12:01:29 CST 2015 )

Code:

2015-02-12

For ksh 93s+

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

PS:

Code:

TZ=CST+24 date +%Y%m%d

produced

Code:

20150212

in a system like:

Code:

OS, ker|rel, machine: SunOS, 5.10, i86pc
Distribution        : Solaris 10 10/08 s10x_u6wos_07b X86

for both ksh and bash.

And for csh / tcsh

Code:

setenv TZ CST+24 ; date +%Y%m%d

produces

Code:

20150212

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