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# 1  
Old 11-05-2015
Help me I want chang date time in SunOS 5

I want chang date time current to last month
ex
Code:
date 
current date 
YESTERDAY=`TZ=GMT date +%Y-%m-%d`; echo $YESTERDAY
2015-11-05

I want to

Code:
2015-10-05

chang last mount

sun can not use
Code:
QMONTH=`date +'%Y%m' -d 'last month'`

help me pls.
Thank you

Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-05-2015 at 04:41 AM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
# 2  
Old 11-05-2015
you can:

a. install GNU coreutils package
b. install newer korn shell
# 3  
Old 11-05-2015
@agent.kgb a. will indeed work but what makes you feel b. would help?
# 4  
Old 11-06-2015
@jlliagre

Code:
$ echo ${.sh.version}
Version M 93t+ 2009-05-01
$ printf "%T\n" now
Fri Nov  6 10:47:33 CET 2015
$ printf "%T\n" yesterday
Thu Nov  5 00:00:00 CET 2015
$ printf "%T\n" "last month"
Thu Oct  1 00:00:00 CEST 2015

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# 5  
Old 11-06-2015
Thanks for the tip !

That was deserving an explanation. I only checked if ksh provides a date builtin which it doesn't .
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