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Operating Systems Solaris Convert string (YYYYMMDD) format to date in Sun OS Post 303015166 by vgersh99 on Thursday 29th of March 2018 11:13:59 AM
Old 03-29-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by apmcd47
This bash-only script works with bash 3 on Solaris and bash 4 on Ubuntu.

To use it call it with yyyymmdd date strings as arguments.
Code:
#!/bin/bash

zeller() {
   year=$1 month=$2 day=$3
   (( 10#$month < 3 )) && year=$(( year - 1 ))
   F=$(( (10#$day + ((13 * ((10#$month+9) % 12) + 12)/5) + \
                (5*(year%100))/4 + (year/400) - 2*(year/100))%7 ))
   (( F<0 )) && (( F = F + 7 ))
   echo $F
}

for date in $@
do
   y=${date:0:4} m=${date:4:2} d=${date:6:2}
   dow=$(zeller $y $m $d)
   if (( dow == 3 ))
   then 
      printf "%02d/%02d/%4d (%s) is a Wednesday\n" $d $m $y $date
      # US date format: (comment above and uncomment below if in the USA)
      #printf "%20d/%02d/%4d (%s) is a Wednesday\n" $m $d $y $date
   else
      printf "%02d/%02d/%4d (%s) is NOT a Wednesday\n" $d $m $y $date
      # US date format:
      #printf "%02d/%02d/%4d (%s) is NOT a Wednesday\n" $m $d $y $date
   fi
done

The function zeller uses the Zeller algorithm to find the day of week from the given year/month/day. Result: 0 for a Sunday through to 6 for a Saturday.

Andrew
good idea, but...somehow the zeller function doesn't work correctly:
Code:
$ zeller.sh 2017 3 25
6
$ zeller.sh 2017 3 1
3

 

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GMMKTIME(3)								 1							       GMMKTIME(3)

gmmktime - Get Unix timestamp for a GMT date

SYNOPSIS
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Identical to mktime(3) except the passed parameters represents a GMT date. gmmktime(3) internally uses mktime(3) so only times valid in derived local time can be used. Like mktime(3), arguments may be left out in order from right to left, with any omitted arguments being set to the current corresponding GMT value. PARAMETERS
o $hour - The number of the hour relative to the start of the day determined by $month, $day and $year. Negative values reference the hour before midnight of the day in question. Values greater than 23 reference the appropriate hour in the following day(s). o $minute - The number of the minute relative to the start of the $hour. Negative values reference the minute in the previous hour. Values greater than 59 reference the appropriate minute in the following hour(s). o $second - The number of seconds relative to the start of the $minute. Negative values reference the second in the previous minute. Values greater than 59 reference the appropriate second in the following minute(s). o $month - The number of the month relative to the end of the previous year. Values 1 to 12 reference the normal calendar months of the year in question. Values less than 1 (including negative values) reference the months in the previous year in reverse order, so 0 is December, -1 is November, etc. Values greater than 12 reference the appropriate month in the following year(s). o $day - The number of the day relative to the end of the previous month. Values 1 to 28, 29, 30 or 31 (depending upon the month) refer- ence the normal days in the relevant month. Values less than 1 (including negative values) reference the days in the previous month, so 0 is the last day of the previous month, -1 is the day before that, etc. Values greater than the number of days in the relevant month reference the appropriate day in the following month(s). o $year - The year o $is_dst - Parameters always represent a GMT date so $is_dst doesn't influence the result. Note This parameter has been removed in PHP 7.0.0. RETURN VALUES
Returns a integer Unix timestamp. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 7.0.0 | | | | | | | $is_dst parameter has been removed. | | | | | 5.1.0 | | | | | | | As of PHP 5.1.0, the $is_dst parameter became | | | deprecated. As a result, the new timezone han- | | | dling features should be used instead. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 gmmktime(3) basic example <?php // Prints: July 1, 2000 is on a Saturday echo "July 1, 2000 is on a " . date("l", gmmktime(0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 2000)); ?> SEE ALSO
mktime(3), date(3), time(3). PHP Documentation Group GMMKTIME(3)
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