I think you are using the wrong tool. You appear to be using gnu coreutils, the "stat" command is available.
Filetimes (ctime, mtime, and atime plus and optional file "birth time") are kept in epoch seconds.
There are 86400 seconds in one day. stat -c "%X filename" returns that value for mtime for the file. mtime is the last time the file was written.
So there are lot of ways to do this. One way:
The above assumes 86400 * 16 seconds from RIGHT NOW. If you want the entire day starting from midnight then you have to subtract the extra seconds after midnight
e.g.,
I want to calculate the date of next satureday of current date using shell script.
Suppose, today is 27-feb-08
I want to get the date of next satureday, which means 01-mar-08, in the formate '' YYMMDD ".
I do this in ksh..
Please tell me any type of command which help me out.
Thanks in... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Any idea to get display of date - n ( n=1,2,3,4 etc) ?
For example , dtoudt will easily execute by dtoudt -3 and result is
>dtoudt -3
1234852529 Date 2009-2-17 time 14:35:29 day 47
How to get it display in 20090217 instead ?
Maybe you have other suggestion to display date... (0 Replies)
Need a little help developing a ksh script. Have read through Perderabo's datecalc routine and it does not seem to fit the function I am looking for. Basically what I am trying to do is find any file (in a specific directory) that was created within the last five minutes. I am not a programming... (3 Replies)
hii all.
I have to get the date of the 7th day past from the current date.
if i give the current date as sep 3 then i must get the date as 27th of august.
can we get the values from the "cal" command.
cal | awk '{print $2}' will this type of command work.
actually my need is
if today is... (17 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a variable where it has a past date value in the format YYYY-MM-DD
eg->
pcontromModate="2008-11-31"
How can i get the date 1 day before the pcontromModate.
The required date is 2008-11-30. ..Plz reply since its an urgent one (2 Replies)
Can I print the date of a specific date?
Let say, today is 20 and I want to print in date format the day 14
I know that I can do this:
date --date='last Mon'
but
How can I do this?:
date --date='last 14'
?? (7 Replies)
hi all..
i want 2 know how 2 find 7days past date from current date..
when i used set datetime = `date '+%m%d%y'` i got 060613..
i just want to know hw to get 053013..
i tried using date functions but couldnt get it :( i use c shell and there is no chance that i can change that ..... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I would like to create a file say test.txt.
And the requirement is its creation date should be 30 minutes past.
For Example :
If i am creating a file at 2:00 am means. Creation time should be 01:30 am.
likewise if i am creating a file at 5 pm means. Creation date should be... (5 Replies)
Hi,
My question is how to calculate the quarter end date according to the current date in shell script? (2 Replies)
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function::ctime
function::ctime
FUNCTION:(3stap) Time utility functions FUNCTION:(3stap)NAME
function::ctime - Convert seconds since epoch into human readable date/time string
SYNOPSIS
ctime:string(epochsecs:long)
ARGUMENTS
epochsecs
Number of seconds since epoch (as returned by gettimeofday_s)
DESCRIPTION
Takes an argument of seconds since the epoch as returned by gettimeofday_s. Returns a string of the form
"Wed Jun 30 21:49:08 1993"
The string will always be exactly 24 characters. If the time would be unreasonable far in the past (before what can be represented with a
32 bit offset in seconds from the epoch) the returned string will be "a long, long time ago...". If the time would be unreasonable far in
the future the returned string will be "far far in the future..." (both these strings are also 24 characters wide).
Note that the epoch (zero) corresponds to
"Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970"
The earliest full date given by ctime, corresponding to epochsecs -2147483648 is "Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901". The latest full date given by
ctime, corresponding to epochsecs 2147483647 is "Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038".
The abbreviations for the days of the week are 'Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', and 'Sat'. The abbreviations for the months are
'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', and 'Dec'.
Note that the real C library ctime function puts a newline ('
') character at the end of the string that this function does not. Also note
that since the kernel has no concept of timezones, the returned time is always in GMT.
SystemTap Tapset Reference May 2013 FUNCTION:(3stap)