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Old 05-30-2007
Power DATE display Problem

I have write
echo `date +%y%m%d`

but it will give


070529.

why I am not getting 070530.
I have Make any syntactical error?
please help.
# 2  
Old 05-30-2007
Q

which flavour of unix you are using and which shell???

i tried same command

output

echo `date +%y%m%d`
070530
# 3  
Old 05-30-2007
The displayed time is based on the clock settings in the UNIX server. Might be the server should be located in US so that it display as 070529
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