You don't say how you source the variable, however you can try;
The information is in the man pages, use man date and you should find what you want.
Regards
Gull04
The format requested if the user is trying to format the current date and time is:
(note the leading + required to specify that a format string follows, %Y instead of %y (complete year, not just the last two digits) and %Z (include the timezone name).
If the intent is to take an existing date and time in the first given format and convert it to the corresponding second given format, there is no way to guess at what year should be used for an arbitrary date and time from some point in the past.
I know the command date +"%Y%m%d" can change today's date to digit format as below .
$date +"%Y%m%d"
20071217
it works fine .
now I want to do it back . If I have a file like below, (in the file , there are three lines, and each line have ; sign , after the ; sign is the date ) , I... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
this is my second post, last post reply was very helpful.
I have a data that has date in DD/MM/YYYY (07/11/2008) format i want to replace the backslash by a dot(.) so that my awk script can read it inside the C shell script that i have written.
i want to change 07/11/2008 to... (3 Replies)
dear members,
ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 40 root sys 1024 Jul 11 22:19 usr
drwxr-xr-x 43 root sys 1024 Feb 1 2009 var
i am using solaris 10
is that possibe to do
drwxr-xr-x 40 root sys 1024 25-08-2009 22:19 usr
drwxr-xr-x 43 root sys ... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I had a scenario like this..
It seems very silly...dont think it as a home work question.....:)
i tried it many ways but i didn't achieve this...
start_date=May122011
here i want to change the start_date in to 20110512
start_date=20110512
tell me how can we achive... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Can someone help me on how to change the date format using sed or any unix command to give my desired output as shown below.
INPUT FILE:
69372,200,20100122T17:56:02,2
53329,500,20100121T11:50:07,2
48865,100,20100114T16:08:16,2
11719,200,20100108T13:32:20,2
DESIRED... (2 Replies)
Dear Friends,
Need your help once again,
I have a variable ( e.g. ${i}) whoch has date in MM/DD/YYYY (E.g. 12/31/2011) format.
I want to change it to DD/MM/YYYY (e.g. 31/12/2011) format.
Request you to guide me as we are unable to do the same.
Thanks in advance
Anu. (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have a file that every line starts with the date and time. The format is like YYYYMMDDHHMM and I woulk like to change it to MM/DD/YY<space>HH:MM.
I tried to figure out a way to do it with sed, but I don't know how I could reorganize the digits of the first format. Does anyone have any... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I was looking for a script to change the date from one format to other. A search in the forum gave me the below script as a result.
#! /bin/ksh
format=YYYYMMDD
YEAR=${format%????}
DAY=${format#??????}
MON=${format#$YEAR}
MON=${MON%$DAY}
echo $MON/$DAY/$YEAR
I got it... (2 Replies)
Hi
I wish to change date from one format to another in unix.
eg: INPUT DATE: 2013159 (YEAR & NUMBER OF DAY)
OUTPUT DATE required: 20130608 (YYYYMMDD)
how to do it ?
Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: dashing201
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stwritetime
sttime(3) ShapeTools Toolkit Library sttime(3)NAME
stMktime, stWriteTime - date and time handling
SYNOPSIS
#include <config.h>
#include <sttk.h.h>
time_tstMktime (char *string);
char*stWriteTime (time_t date);
DESCRIPTION
stMktime scans the given string and tries to read a date and time from it. It understands various formats of date strings. The following is
a list of all valid formats, optional parts in brackets.
[Tue] Jan 5[,] [19]93
This includes the standard asctime(3) format.
Jan 5 With no year given, the year defaults to the current year.
[19]93/01/05 This notation requires month and day represented by exactly two digits.
5.1.[19]93 This is the usual German notation.
5.1. German notation referencing the current year.
A certain time, given together with the date must always have the following form.
hours:minutes[:seconds]
Each of the fields must be an integer value within the proper range (hours: 0-23, minutes and seconds: 0-59). Values below
10 may be written as one digit numbers.
The time value may be placed anywhere in the date string: at the beginning, at the end, or somewhere in the middle. Any amount of white-
space may be given between a field of the time value and the separating colon. The time is always considered to be local time.
stWriteTime generates a time string similar to asctime(3) from its date argument.
SEE ALSO asctime(3)BUGS
Time Zone Names within the time string (like `MET') are not handled properly. In most cases they will cause a failure.
sttk-1.7 Thu Jun 24 17:43:35 1993 sttime(3)