Phil,
As I said...it is a workaround, since ins Solaris you cannot execute
that command:
# date -R --date="-14 days"
date: illegal option -- R
date: illegal option -- date=-14 days
usage: date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
date [-u] [+format]
date -a [-]sss[.fff]
Best,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:p...@doc.ic.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:56 PM
To: Paul Grinberg
Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Bug report for "date"
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Paul Grinberg wrote:
> Shell script for Solaris....It can go future as long as I want, but
past
> only 6 days....
>
>
http://www.isrcomputing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id
=125:unix-shell-script-to-calculate-date-in-the-future-and-in-the-past&c
atid=38:technology-tips&Itemid=82
That script is using (/abusing) TZ beyond its stated purpose. As Bob
suggests, GNU date can perform date calculations with relative offsets,
e.g.
$ date -d 'now + 12 days'
Mon Aug 10 00:55:32 BST 2009
Cheers,
Phil
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