Shell Programming and Scripting

I am not using GNU nor BSD. On AIX, how do you return yesterday in the format of i.e. "May 09" with a space.

# `TZ=y380 date +%h""%d`
>> May09

# `TZ=y380 date +%h" "%d`
>> May

I appreciate your help in advance.

thx

You refer to May 09 becoming 05/09. What is the significance of the "09"?

Sorry for the confusion.

`TZ=y168 date +%m"/"%d` gives me "05/09". I need to know how to get "May 09" as well.

thx much

here are all that I can find:

FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form
specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:

%% a literal %

%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)

%A locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)

%b locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)

%B locale's full month name (e.g., January)

%c locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005)

%C century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)

%d day of month (e.g, 01)

%D date; same as %m/%d/%y

%e day of month, space padded; same as %_d

%F full date; same as %Y-%m-%d

%g the last two digits of the year corresponding to the %V week
number

%G the year corresponding to the %V week number

%h same as %b

%H hour (00..23)

%I hour (01..12)

%j day of year (001..366)

%k hour ( 0..23)

%l hour ( 1..12)

%m month (01..12)

%M minute (00..59)

%n a newline

%N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)

%p locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known

%P like %p, but lower case

%r locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)

%R 24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M

%s seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

%S second (00..60)

%t a tab

%T time; same as %H:%M:%S

%u day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday

%U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)

%V week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)

%w day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday

%W week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)

%x locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)

%X locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)

%y last two digits of year (00..99)

%Y year

%z +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)

%:z +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)