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Old 09-04-2006
Question about Paderabo date script
The date outputs the difference in this format YYYYMD. I think it would be better to have the output as YYYYMMDD. Im having problem processing the format.

Thank you
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Old 09-04-2006
about having the output a lot simpler

September 4, 11:48:14 AM 2006 Monday EDT


instead of that annoying military times
Terrible
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Old 09-04-2006
I will ignore Terrible's comment because my script works with dates only. It has nothing to do with clock time in any format.

Kayarsenal, my script outputs stuff as y m d not yyyymd. That is year, month, and day are output as separate fields. The range of dates that it is will to work with is Jan 1, 1860 though Dec 31, 3999 and this happens to have the side effect of limiting year to exactly 4 digits. I avoided leading zeros because Posix requires that integers with leading zeros be interpreted as octal thus rendering 08 and 09 as illegal integers. If you want leading zeros anyway, store the month and day into variables that were listed in a "typeset -Z2" statement.
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Old 09-04-2006
followup
Hi Pade,
You mean I should edit the datecalc script? Where exactly to edit to have the YYYYMMDD output? Thank you
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Old 09-04-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
I will ignore Terrible's comment because my script works with dates only. It has nothing to do with clock time in any format.

Kayarsenal, my script outputs stuff as y m d not yyyymd. That is year, month, and day are output as separate fields. The range of dates that it is will to work with is Jan 1, 1860 though Dec 31, 3999 and this happens to have the side effect of limiting year to exactly 4 digits. I avoided leading zeros because Posix requires that integers with leading zeros be interpreted as octal thus rendering 08 and 09 as illegal integers. If you want leading zeros anyway, store the month and day into variables that were listed in a "typeset -Z2" statement.

whoa. i wasn't ridiculing ur date script. i dont know what it is cause i've actually never seen it. i was just saying it'd be nice to have someone rewrite the date command so folks like me who like things easy dont have to look at that military type format when u always goto minus 12 to get the exact time. that i hate
Terrible
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Old 09-05-2006
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whoa. i wasn't ridiculing ur date script. i dont know what it is cause i've actually never seen it. i was just saying it'd be nice to have someone rewrite the date command so folks like me who like things easy dont have to look at that military type format when u always goto minus 12 to get the exact time. that i hate
We are not here to discuss your likes and dislikes, if you are not sure what about OP has asked, why you bothered to reply in this thread? I think it would be better to close this thread now.
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Old 09-05-2006
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Originally Posted by shereenmotor
it would be better to close this thread now.

this sounds about right
Terrible
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