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Old 12-11-2008
Date change to tomorrow
I have this code in a script that says it is calculating current date:

cur_date=`date -u +%m/%d/%Y`

If the script is run today during the day, it returns 12/11/2008
If the script is run today during the night, it returns 12/12/2008

Why does it return tomorrow's date if it was run at night/evening?

date is fine - looks like current system date when displayed in log.

Is it the -u?
What does -u do?
# 2  
Old 12-11-2008
man date ....

Code:
     -u              Display (or set) the date in Greenwich  Mean
                     Time  (GMT-universal  time),  bypassing  the
                     normal conversion to (or from) local time.

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Old 12-11-2008
Thank you - make sense now.
 
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