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Old 04-05-2006
date subtraction(URGENT)
Hi all,

I need the date subtraction fuctionality using shell commands.
For example:
date1:Wed Apr 5 08:35:21 IST 2006
date2:Tue Apr 4 10:35:44 IST 2006
I need the date subtraction result like " 22 hours 23 seconds".

Please guide me to complete this task.
Can you please help me ASAP.

Regards,
Uday
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Old 02-25-2008
same is my question...
experts pls help us..
Sreejith_VK
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Old 02-25-2008
Two different users posting similar questions. Looks like homework.
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Old 02-25-2008
Hi vino,

Posts are similar but the first one was in the year "2006".Smilie

This is not a home work.

I am writing a unix program which will generate a report of a process.The process is having two logs the start.log(time of start of process )and the end.log(end time of the process).

I want in my report to show the over all time of the process for that i will have to subtract the end time from start time.
I know to fetch the data from the logs.
Now i want to subtract the two dates.
The datecalc is also not working as this invloves characters.
Request expert help.
Sreejith_VK
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