I'm having an issue with the spam data mine that seems to be related to the linux "date" command.
This morning's spam is being labeled as being from 2009. I immediately assumed that someone had hardcoded a year, and started examining code to see who I should scold about this. But in each case, the program is naming the files based on a date calculation. I'm creating a variable called "NOWDATE" using the command: NOWDATE=`date +%g%b%d` Yesterday for example, this resulted in dates of 09Dec31 per the man pages . . . %g = last two digits of year of ISO week number %b = local abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan) %d = day of month (e.g, 01) When I give the command, "date", I get: Fri Jan 1 09:05:06 CST 2010 But when I give the command "date +%g%b%d" I get: 09Jan01 when I give the command "date +%G" I get: 2009 when I give the command "date +%F" I get: 2010-01-01 -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Gary Warner Director of Research in Computer Forensics The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Computer & Information Sciences & Department of Justice Sciences 205.934.8620 205.422.2113 g...@cis.uab.edu g...@askgar.com -----------------------------------------------------------
