Re: [tbox-l] GNU date ?

[David C. <cl...@au...>]

Yes -- you can find the GNU date command in the "sh-utils" package:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/sh-utils/sh-utils-2.0-10.aix5.1.ppc.rpm

Or if you are still on 4.3.3:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/sh-utils/sh-utils-2.0-10.aix4.3.ppc.rpm

Because it has the same name as the native AIX date command, you can
invoke it as /usr/linux/bin/date or /opt/freeware/bin/date or set your
path to find that version before /usr/bin or /bin.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:07:52PM -0600, Westphal, Raymond W wrote:
> Hello AIXers!
>  
> I was looking through Google AIX group for a Perl script to display
> epoch time. I found reference to a GNU version of date.
>  
> To find epoch time:
> 
> $ perl -e 'print time()'
> 
> To find time so far ago or in the future via actual passed seconds
> (86400 seconds a day).  Calculating a DAY to be 86400 seconds works 
> most of the time, but there are times it breaks (daylight savings, etc).
> A more robust applicatoin would be GNU date.
> 
> $ perl -e 'print $time = (localtime (time + (86400 * -1))),"\n";'
> #                                                    ^ -1 day (past)
> #                                                    Pos = future
> #                                                    Neg = past
>  
> OR
>  
> Try GNU date... it does exactly what your asking w/out converting back
> and forth
> 
> /pub/gnu/bin/date -d "30 days ago"
> using different output options (%s say) gives you epoch, 
> 
> as one would expect, the GNU version is much more robust than the
> base OS version;
> 
> Is the GNU date included in any of your GNU utilities?
>  
> Thanks in advance!
>  
> Ray Westphal.

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David Clissold
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