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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with date arithmetic please Post 303000328 by Corona688 on Monday 10th of July 2017 11:39:47 AM
Old 07-10-2017
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Originally Posted by ektubbe
Thanks madeingermany...I tried but the error is still because of line I mentioned in my first post n I am using AIX so most of the commands don't work...I need to do date calculation for an arbitrary date so tz doesn't work for me either Smilie
~Ekta
Exactly the situation my general purpose date script was designed for - when you need the GNU tools and don't have them.
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Also try my general purpose date script which is a limited gnu-date-alike written in Perl.
 

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DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)						 1						 DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)

date_parse_from_format - Get info about given date formatted according to the specified format

SYNOPSIS
array date_parse_from_format (string $format, string $date) DESCRIPTION
Returns associative array with detailed info about given date. PARAMETERS
o $format - Format accepted by DateTime.createFromFormat(3). o $date - String representing the date. RETURN VALUES
Returns associative array with detailed info about given date. EXAMPLES
Example #1 date_parse_from_format(3) example <?php $date = "6.1.2009 13:00+01:00"; print_r(date_parse_from_format("j.n.Y H:iP", $date)); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [year] => 2009 [month] => 1 [day] => 6 [hour] => 13 [minute] => 0 [second] => 0 [fraction] => [warning_count] => 0 [warnings] => Array ( ) [error_count] => 0 [errors] => Array ( ) [is_localtime] => 1 [zone_type] => 1 [zone] => -60 [is_dst] => ) SEE ALSO
DateTime.createFromFormat(3), checkdate(3). PHP Documentation Group DATE_PARSE_FROM_FORMAT(3)
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