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Hi all, hopefully someone out there can give me some tips on how to resolve this

I have a simple shell script

Code:

 
who -u > /tmp/userlog

one of the line stored in userlog when executing shell script manually:

jim123 pts/24 2012-03-30 13:02 00:56 4131 (xya.dsfgds.com)

one of the line stored in userlog when execute the shell script as cron job:

jim123 pts/24 Mar 30 13:02 00:58 4131 (xya.dsfgds.com)



I'm not sure why the date formatting is different executing manually and as cron job but I need the date format to remain unchanged as 2012-03-30 when run as cron job.

any idea is much appreciated.

cheers,

Moderator's Comments:

Please use next time code tags for your code and data

Likely your login environment is setting LC_TIME (whereas cron will not be running .login/.profile).

Thanks for the response CarloM.


I guess alternative is for below line:

jim123 pts/24 Mar 30 13:02 00:58 4131 (xya.dsfgds.com)

how to grab just 00:58 ? I tried using awk { print $6 } but for some reason sometimes it grabs 13:02 and other times it grabs 4131

It might be easier to set LC_TIME in the cron script.

Your awk results are different because "Mar 30" is 2 (whitespace-separated) fields, but "2012-03-30" is only 1.

Found a solution for this, there is probably better ways to fix this but if anyone is interested, add below to your cron file and the date format will stay the same for cron job.

Code:

LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"