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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Date conversion Post 302980722 by featheredfrog on Thursday 1st of September 2016 01:32:08 PM
Old 09-01-2016
A simple reading of the "date" manpage tells you this:

Today is 20160901, so

Code:
$ date +%A -d 20160901
Thursday

Invalid?
Code:
$ date +%A -d 20160431
date: invalid date `20160431'


Last edited by featheredfrog; 09-01-2016 at 02:36 PM.. Reason: added a chiding RTFM
 

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Mojo::Date(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   Mojo::Date(3pm)

NAME
Mojo::Date - HTTP 1.1 date container SYNOPSIS
use Mojo::Date; my $date = Mojo::Date->new(784111777); my $http_date = $date->to_string; $date->parse('Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT'); my $epoch = $date->epoch; DESCRIPTION
Mojo::Date implements HTTP 1.1 date and time functions according to RFC 2616. Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 822, updated by RFC 1123 Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT ; RFC 850, obsoleted by RFC 1036 Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994 ; ANSI C's asctime() format ATTRIBUTES
Mojo::Date implements the following attributes. "epoch" my $epoch = $date->epoch; $date = $date->epoch(784111777); Epoch seconds. METHODS
Mojo::Date inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones. "new" my $date = Mojo::Date->new; my $date = Mojo::Date->new($string); Construct a new Mojo::Date object. "parse" $date = $date->parse('Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994'); Parse date in one of the following formats. - Epoch format(784111777) - RFC 822/1123 (Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT) - RFC 850/1036 (Sunday, 06-Nov-94 08:49:37 GMT) - ANSI C asctime() (Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994) "to_string" my $string = $date->to_string; Render date suitable for HTTP 1.1 messages. SEE ALSO
Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, <http://mojolicio.us>. perl v5.14.2 2012-09-05 Mojo::Date(3pm)
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