Re: Getting Yesterday's Date (Repost due to error)

["Timothy A. Napthali" <timothya_(_at_)_napthali_(_dot_)_com>]

Good point - I'll think I'll do it with perl, of get GNU Date. 

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Of Christian Weisgerber
Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2005 11:52 AM
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Subject: Re: Getting Yesterday's Date (Repost due to error)

Timothy A. Napthali <timothya_(_at_)_napthali_(_dot_)_com> wrote:

> It should be safe. All my mail servers run GMT to prevent log 
> confusion
> (ie: It's a given that any log time is always GMT). 

Be very, very careful.

$ export TZ=right/GMT
$ date -r $((915148821      )) +%Y%m%d            
19981231
$ date -r $((915148821-86400)) +%Y%m%d
19981231

There is probably a Perl module around that can handle this sort of
calculation in a more robust manner.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy_(_at_)_mips_(_dot_)_inka_(_dot_)_de