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Date calculations
Name: Grace Date: April 30, 2002 at 12:30:30 Pacific
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I am looking for a unix script that will calculate a date in the past and also accounts for past months and year. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I want the script to calculate a date in the past, say 7 days, and then delete certain files based on that date. My problem is that I don't know how to account for going back to the previous month or year. Between May 1st-7th, how do I calculate 7 days before (a date in April) and delete files created on that date?
Summary: Hello All, Need Help!!! I want to create a unix script, which will calculate a particular date for every Quarter. Any help on this will be appreciated. Thanks. ...
Summary: William Robertson has done some fine work with date calculation he chose to share with us here. http://www.williamrobertson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/code/shift_date.txt ...
Summary: bam74: What Mike has pointed you to is the US Naval observatory's Julian Date calculator. Joseph Scaliger defined the number of continuous days elapsed since Noon, UTC, January 1, 4713 B.C. (Astromo...