If you are going to be dealing with dates frequently, you might want to look at a package called dateutils. It is available on several platforms. I use Debian, but it's available even on Apple/macOS via brew. Here is a demonstration, note that the key command is simply dateutils.deq:
producing:
Additional details:
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
Hi Guys,
My first post..:)
Right...I want to move existing files (with some date in their name) currently in $mainftp, to $mainfolder/$foldate/system1.
I'd like to be able to increment date in the for loop? Is this possible or should I use a different technique.
The script return the... (4 Replies)
I need to increment a date value through shell script.
Input value consist of start date and end date in DATE format of unix.
For eg.
I need increment a date value of 1/1/09 to 31/12/09 i.e for a whole yr.
The output must look like
1/1/09
2/2/09
.
.
.
31/1/09
.
.
1/2/09
.
28/2/09... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Iam new to scripting language.:o
can someone help me out solving this thread?hopingly ya....:)
I want to write a script which connects to db and searches the count in a table which has date column and id column.
If the count is not equal to 0 then it should increment the date with the one... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a variable lets say DATA_DATE.
I have to pass some value to this variable in YYYYMMDD format.
lets say today I have passed this variable as :
DATA_DATE=20100107
Then pls help me how to calculate another variable DATA_DATE1 (which is DATA_DATE+1).
The code should work... (3 Replies)
hi Friends,
Today_Dt=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
So the Today date is 2010-05-03
I have a file which has date values as below
2010-04-27
2010-04-02
2010-04-18
2010-04-28
2010-04-29
.. (1 Reply)
hi experts,
my requirement is like this i need to develop a shell script to update date part with new incremental date time in file some 'X' which is kept at some server location incrementing every two hours.as i am new to this scripting i need support from u people,thanx in advance (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I need to increment date at run time.
Example:
I need to write a shell script with two parameters.
1. country code like (US,UK, IND.....)
2. Date range from_date to to_date (20070101 to 20070331)
I need to run shell script like this
country_info.sh US 20070101 20070331
... (3 Replies)
hey guys,
I need to incerement the date variable for instance
echo `date '+%F %H:%M:00'`
this produces
2014-08-02 20:05:00
-I will grant this to : $Datehour and need to assign 1 hr from now to $Datelasthour
-the script time will be used to talk to DB system information.
however... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
datetime.diff
DATETIME.DIFF(3) 1 DATETIME.DIFF(3)DateTime::diff - Returns the difference between two DateTime objects
Object oriented style
SYNOPSIS
public DateInterval DateTime::diff (DateTimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false])
DESCRIPTION
DateInterval DateTimeImmutable::diff (DateTimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false]) DateInterval DateTimeInterface::diff (Date-
TimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false])
Procedural style
DateInterval date_diff (DateTimeInterface $datetime1, DateTimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false])
Returns the difference between two DateTimeInterface objects.
PARAMETERS
o $datetime
- The date to compare to.
o $absolute
- Should the interval be forced to be positive?
RETURN VALUES
The DateInterval object representing the difference between the two dates or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
DateTime.diff(3) example
Object oriented style
<?php
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
?>
Procedural style
<?php
$datetime1 = date_create('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = date_create('2009-10-13');
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
?>
The above examples will output:
+2 days
Example #2
DateTime object comparison
Note
As of PHP 5.2.2, DateTime objects can be compared using comparison operators.
<?php
$date1 = new DateTime("now");
$date2 = new DateTime("tomorrow");
var_dump($date1 == $date2);
var_dump($date1 < $date2);
var_dump($date1 > $date2);
?>
The above example will output:
bool(false)
bool(true)
bool(false)
SEE ALSO DateInterval.format(3), DateTime.add(3), DateTime.sub(3).
PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.DIFF(3)