On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 14:51, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> Most of that I can figure out on my own. The only problem I really have
> is with the dates. I know 'date +%x` will output the current date as
> mm/dd/yyyy. `date +%j` will give me the day of the year (eg.: today is
> 107). Using that format quits working sometime in October tho. (10/3 is
> 276 + 90 = 366)

366 mod 365 (you'll need to calculate if it's a leap year) = 1, or
Jan 1.

You could also just subtract 365/366 from the date and get the same
thing.

There are perl modules for messing around with dates as well that I used
years ago that would add dates, etc.

-Mark


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