Re: [foxboro] Date/Time Arithmetic

  • From: "Jeremy Milum" <jmilum@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:44:46 -0600

On 1/23/07, Deo, Terry <Terry.Deo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone know of an easy way to do date/time arithmetic in a shell
> script?  Specifically, what I need to do is get the current date and
> time and then adjust it for an offset which can be either positive (add
> nn minutes to the current date/time) or negative (subtract nn minutes
> from the current date/time).
>
> Any info would be greatly appreciated.

the GNU version of the date command will do that easily. I can send it
to you for Solaris if you want.
 
 
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