[sanesecurity] Re: [patch] Re: update script broken on FreeBSD
- From: Mike Cappella <lists-sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:12:41 -0800
On 1/20/2009 4:00 PM, Craig Green wrote:
'date -d' sets the "the kernel's value for daylight saving time" in
FreeBSD. :-)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=date&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html
Darn, didn't know that. Its
-d date
Parse the provided human-described date and time and
display the result without actually changing the system clock.
on NetBSD.
I gave up trying to use date years ago when portability is important.
The POSIX-based perl solution I gave should be sufficient.
Thanks.
$ date
Tue Jan 20 15:51:44 PST 2009
$ date -d now+30minutes
Tue Jan 20 16:21:46 PST 2009
The BSD equivalent would be:
$ date
Tue Jan 20 18:58:24 EST 2009
$ date -jv +30M
Tue Jan 20 19:28:28 EST 2009
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