See package dateutils, which can be found in many repositories, and includes ddiff:
Some additional details:
The package utilities take some practice to learn, but are very useful for dealing with almost any form of date and time data.
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Hi All,
Wish you a Happy New year...
I have to find the difference between two dates, the result should be the number of days. I have seen the "datecalc" function. Its good, can I have any other alternative.
Thanks in Advance
Raju (4 Replies)
Hi All
How to get the difference between two dates in no of days ??? My date format is like this YYYY/MM/DD. I have to get the no of days between two dates in the given format.
I tried to search the forum but nothing came up similar to my requitement. Your help will be appreciated.
... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I would like to find out the number of days between two dates of the format yyyy-mm-dd.
Any help on this is highly appreciated.
Thanks. (6 Replies)
Hi all.
My question may seems to be similar to one that already been here. But i need a little other solution.
I have two dates in format dd/mm/yyyy. I need to find number of days between them. I need to do it in bash script.
I am running on Solaris machine and have cutted 'date' command version... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Is there any way I can get the difference between two dates in terms of days?
I have used this method so far, but I cant format it in terms of days.
@a=&DateCalc($date1,$date2,0);
The o/p that I am getting is sort of like this:
+0:0:0:4:0:0:0
I just want to get 4 days as an o/p.... (1 Reply)
Hello!
i need to find files lower and bigger that one date i pass, i search in the man find, but i didn't find anything, the only that i find is the parameter -mtime, in this parameter i can pass a number of days, but i need to know the difference between dates, any built-in function for do... (15 Replies)
Hi!
I have two parameters like this: YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD
My question is, there is a direct command for get the elapsed time between the 2 dates, or I have to find another way?
Thx! (1 Reply)
hi all,
I need a help for below requirement.
Difference between two dates"12-11-2009" and "03-25-2012" (mm-dd-yy format") in weeks and days and hours
Please help me for this. Thanks in adv....
I am working in AIX, so dont have below command:-
date --version (2 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I have a file that has the contents like below:
file1.txt
5,13/07/2013 23:25:25,14/07/2013 19:40:21
5,13/07/2013 23:25:25,14/07/2013 19:40:43
5,12/07/2013 23:50:50,13/07/2013 20:30:26
5,12/07/2013 23:20:24,13/07/2013 19:40:53
60,14/07/2013 00:00:00,14/07/2013 23:00:39... (5 Replies)
I have a script which is printing date in below format while writing the logs.
theDate=`date +"%m%d%Y"`
theTime=`date +"%H%M%S"`
echo $theDate $theTime
How can i find out difference current time and above format. Appreciate your help. (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
date
DATE(1) BSD General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date -- display or set date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-ajnu] [-d date] [-r seconds] [+format] [[[[[[CC]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
DESCRIPTION
date displays the current date and time when invoked without arguments. Providing arguments will format the date and time in a user-defined
way or set the date. Only the superuser may set the date.
The options are as follows:
-a Use adjtime(2) to change the local system time slowly, maintaining it as a monotonically increasing function. -a implies -n.
-d date
Parse the provided human-described date and time and display the result without actually changing the system clock. (See
parsedate(3) for examples.)
-j Parse the provided canonical representation of date and time (described below) and display the result without actually changing the
system clock.
-n The utility timed(8) is used to synchronize the clocks on groups of machines. By default, if timed is running, date will set the
time on all of the machines in the local group. The -n option stops date from setting the time for other than the current machine.
-r seconds
Print out the date and time that is seconds from the Epoch.
-u Display or set the date in UTC (universal) time.
An operand with a leading plus (+) sign signals a user-defined format string which specifies the format in which to display the date and
time. The format string may contain any of the conversion specifications described in the strftime(3) manual page, as well as any arbitrary
text. A <newline> character is always output after the characters specified by the format string. The format string for the default display
is:
%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Z %Y
If an operand does not have a leading plus sign, it is interpreted as a value for setting the system's notion of the current date and time.
The canonical representation for setting the date and time is:
CC The first two digits of the year (the century).
yy The second two digits of the year. If yy is specified, but CC is not, a value for yy between 69 and 99 results in a CC value
of 19. Otherwise, a CC value of 20 is used.
mm The month of the year, from 01 to 12.
dd The day of the month, from 01 to 31.
HH The hour of the day, from 00 to 23.
MM The minute of the hour, from 00 to 59.
SS The second of the minute, from 00 to 61.
Everything but the minutes is optional.
Time changes for Daylight Saving and Standard time and leap seconds and years are handled automatically.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of date:
TZ The timezone to use when displaying dates. See environ(7) for more information.
FILES
/etc/localtime Symlink pointing to system's default timezone information file in /usr/share/zoneinfo directory.
/var/log/wtmp A record of date resets and time changes.
/var/log/messages A record of the user setting the time.
EXAMPLES
The command:
date '+DATE: %m/%d/%y%nTIME: %H:%M:%S'
will display:
DATE: 11/21/87
TIME: 13:36:16
The command:
date 8506131627
sets the date to ``June 13, 1985, 4:27 PM''.
The command:
date 1432
sets the time to 2:32 PM, without modifying the date.
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 on success, 1 if unable to set the date, and 2 if able to set the local date, but unable to set it globally.
Occasionally, when timed(8) synchronizes the time on many hosts, the setting of a new time value may require more than a few seconds. On
these occasions, date prints: 'Network time being set'. The message 'Communication error with timed' occurs when the communication between
date and timed fails.
SEE ALSO adjtime(2), gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), parsedate(3), strftime(3), utmp(5), timed(8)
R. Gusella and S. Zatti, TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD.
STANDARDS
The date utility is expected to be compatible with IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'').
BSD November 15, 2006 BSD