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Old 06-21-2007
Adding # minutes to current time...
Hi all,
Looking for a way to add lets say 10 minutes to the current time output should look like 7:15 AM or 7:15 PM. I know that gdate could do this for me but unfortunately its not available on the system I'm working on. So if any one know any way I can accomplish this using the date command it would be great.

Thanks,
--GT
# 2  
Old 06-21-2007
$ date
Thu Jun 21 22:12:54 IST 2007

Code:
$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime time + 600'

Thu Jun 21 22:22:59 2007
kamitsin
# 3  
Old 06-21-2007
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
add_min()
{
	perl -e '
	     $tm = $ARGV[0];
	     $tm *= 60;
	     ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$mon,$yr,$wday,$yday,$dntcare)=localtime(time + $tm);
	printf("%2d:%2d:%2d\n", $hour, $min, $sec);  
	       ' $1
}	

add_min 10

# 4  
Old 06-21-2007
I really like this one liner, perl -e 'print scalar localtime time + 600' however the format of the output needs to look like 1:39 PM.... can this be done with perl?

P.S. Thanks for the quick responses...
Last edited by gptavares; 06-21-2007 at 03:07 PM..
# 5  
Old 06-21-2007
Try:
perl -e '@d=localtime time() + 600; printf "%02d:%02d%s\n",$d[2]%12,$d[1],("AM","PM")[$d[2]/12]'
# 6  
Old 06-21-2007
Perfect, thanks Perderabo... and everyone else...
# 7  
Old 06-21-2007
gnu awk
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{print strftime("%c %p",systime()+600)}'
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