[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Example of "date" sytax to return a date in the past?



on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> > I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with
> > Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past.
> > 
> > However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page,
> > it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what is the "STRING"
> > fomrat?
> 
> Lines 47-133 of the date(1) man page describe the string format in
> excruciating detail.

The date output format directives are described in detail, but not the
syntax requested by Stan Brown.  For this, it's necessary to dig through
the info page.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?       There is no K5 cabal
  http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/         http://www.kuro5hin.org

Attachment: pgpJqyW7ITlb1.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: