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Old 03-25-2006
Dates of previous years
Is there any way to use date with previous dates such as "2 23 2000" in order to see what day of the week it was? I tried changing the current date to "date 022300452000"
but then it told me that I could not do this because I was "Not the owner". Any other ways of getting the day result?
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Old 03-25-2006
Please look in our FAQ forum for the date arithmetic article. It has a link to my datecalc script that you can download.

Code:
$ datecalc -D 2000 2 23
Wednesday
$

And datecalc can do anything else you want to do to a date too.
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Old 03-26-2006
If you are simply looking for a quick reference and not a solution to be used as part of a script, the cal(1) command works nicely.

Usage: cal [ [ month ] year ]

Code:
# cal 2 2000
   February 2000
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
       1  2  3  4  5
 6  7  8  9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29

 
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