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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting comparing 2 dates Post 58153 by moxxx68 on Sunday 14th of November 2004 11:08:54 PM
Old 11-15-2004
Unix is used loosely with both Unix and Linux the assumption goes with date +%s "unix"...
unless the original post specified otherwise.
what you are claiming is a little irrelevant its off topic and doesn't help the opriginal poster solve their problem..
do you have a better answer.. ifact do you know what flavour of Unix the original poster is uisng.. since linux is basically unix.

try gawk "substrings" to compare strings as you would in C just put the whole value of the time stamp in a variable and compare using the awk string comparison command..(awk is basically a language not a command so it will do the job just as you want) you will have to look it up in the man pages or try http://www.sourceforge.net to get the exact command since I am little rusty on awk..
moxxx68
 

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TZSELECT(8)						    Linux System Administration 					       TZSELECT(8)

NAME
tzselect - select a timezone SYNOPSIS
tzselect DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting timezone description to standard output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable. All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error. EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a timezone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise. ENVIRONMENT
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk). TZDIR Name of the directory containing timezone data files (default: /usr/share/zoneinfo). FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names. TZDIR/zone.tab Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments. TZDIR/TZ Time zone data file for timezone TZ. SEE ALSO
tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2007-05-18 TZSELECT(8)
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