Works great, thank you for your assistance. With Best Regards Assaf Feuerstein Unix System Administrator Bezeq International
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:58 PM To: Assaf Feuerstein Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: date bug "Assaf Feuerstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As you can see the 1 month ago give me the current month instead of > last month, and the 2 month ago give me an ok result. > Is there a way to fix the 1 month ago that it will also work in the > last day of the month? Please read the section "Relative items in date strings" in the coreutils manual: The fuzz in units can cause problems with relative items. For example, `2003-07-31 -1 month' might evaluate to 2003-07-01, because 2003-06-31 is an invalid date. To determine the previous month more reliably, you can ask for the month before the 15th of the current month. For example: $ date -R Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:02:39 -0700 $ date --date='-1 month' +'Last month was %B?' Last month was July? $ date --date="$(date +%Y-%m-15) -1 month" +'Last month was %B!' Last month was June! Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
