Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:12:54 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Idea for date(1) improvement. Message-ID: <20040908121254.GC86996@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0409081106290.51837@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <38933.1094640660@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0409081106290.51837@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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--s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:44:44AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >=20 > > I have sometimes needed to get the date of yesterday or last monday > > and so on for creating filenames. > > > > We have this very flexible code in at(1) and cvs(1) for specifying > > time. > > > > Anyone up for making it possible to say: > > > > date -w "2 days ago" > > > > ? >=20 > -w ? isn't it -v ? date -v-2d ? >=20 > Anyway I do not like both of this ... I think I haven't used -v > since that one day in 2000.... >=20 > : THE PROBLEM: > : --------------- > : > : for this night : > : > : > date > : Sat Apr 1 00:26:11 CEST 2000 > : > date -v-1d +%Y%m > : 200002 > : > date -v-1d +%Y%m%d > : 20000229 > : > date > : Sat Apr 1 00:26:21 CEST 2000 >=20 This one has been long fixed, in date/vary.c,v 1.9 (2000/04/05): : $ env LC_ALL=3DC TZ=3DEurope/Prague ./date -v-1d -j 200004010000 : Tue Feb 29 23:00:00 CET 2000 : $ cvs -R up -r1.9 vary.c : U vary.c : $ make date : cc -O -pipe -c vary.c : cc -O -pipe -o date date.o netdate.o vary.o -lutil : $ env LC_ALL=3DC TZ=3DEurope/Prague ./date -v-1d -j 200004010000 : Fri Mar 31 00:00:00 CEST 2000 Recently, more changes to the -v behavior have been made by yar@. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBPvdGqRfpzJluFF4RAgXfAKCOLoVVNYep7tbCPXMb16cjT5KxjACeLgpE +XwH4TnI3+VlEHCedsrnKt8= =GUDg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s/l3CgOIzMHHjg/5--
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