Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:09:08 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backups of log files Message-ID: <p05101564b8b4b9533bcd@[10.0.1.9]> In-Reply-To: <20020313074829.GC375@hades.hell.gr> References: <200203130057.TAA27975@uce55.uchaswv.edu> <20020313074829.GC375@hades.hell.gr>
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At 9:48 AM +0200 2002/03/13, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> You will probably want to have the day of month and month to have two
> digits, later on. As others have pointed out -questions is the best place
> for general FreeBSD questions, but here's a snippet that you might find
> interesting:
>
> use POSIX;
> $s = strftime("%d.%m.%Y", localtime());
> print "$s\n";
You should swap the order of year, month, and day, so that the
files will automatically sort into the proper date order when you
'ls' them. Moreover, now you can claim that your program is
ISO-compliant with regards to handling dates. ;-)
--
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