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Are the 6Z and 5Z a representation of timezone offsets?

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SunOS EGPRS1 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

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no it does not , i intend to remove them .

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Dears,

Any update.

Ill be glad if anyone supported.

Regards,

You've been given plenty of resources to try; what have you tried? If you have problems with any of them we can certainly help, or problems with the details of it go ahead and ask, but this FAQ exists for a reason. Questions like yours happen all the time, it's just a matter of chopping up your input in a way to feed it into the scripts already given.

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We've got to post #10 and seen no code from the O/P which might give us a clue what Programming Language or Shell is preferred. There is no point in re-inventing the wheel because the basics of subtracting timestamps are in the FAQ posts.
Now if the O/P tries some code to tackle the whole program and then hits a problem, that is different.

Dears,

Thanks alot for all your comments ,let me clarify some issues.

1-When i first posted my question i posted in shell-programming and scripting, just after i found that it's position in such forum is misleading so i re posted it this forum

2-I am a newbie in this forum and this is the first script i write . so thanks for your patience and cooperation.

3-I am sure that all of your assistance is very valuable ,i do not intend to waste any of your time .

4-I have tried many things and recently read a lot of useful stuff in FAQ .

Here is what ive upto :

a-I succeeded to remove the ".oz" in the last of 2 dates

I found the below script which transfers the YYMMDD to YY month(MM)-DD

Code:

echo "20110614" | nawk 'BEGIN{split("JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC",month," ")}
{printf("%s-%s-%s\n",substr($0,7,2),month[substr($0,5,2)+0],substr($0,1,4))}'

b- sadly its not YYYYMMDDHHMMSS ,even if so i cant get to subtract 2 times.

c- I read something about unix time . if i managed to modify such time into unix time will i be able to find the difference easly ?

Thanks alot for your cooperation in advance.

Moderator's Comments:

Please view this code tag video for how to use code tags when posting code and data.

Some reading:
Date arithmetic, Part 1
Date arithmetic, Part 2
Date arithmetic, Part 3

The all three links is how to transfer a 8-digit date to a normal julian date and do arithmatic actions

My request was on a 14-digit date YYYYmmDDHHMMSS time difference.