I'm trying to find a means, given a week number, to find the date of the Monday and Friday. I was wondering if I could use GNU date to do that straightforwardly instead of having to program this.
One first problem is how to get the n-th week of the year. The following seems to work: % LC_ALL=C date -d '2007-01-01 7 weeks' Mon Feb 19 00:00:00 CET 2007 but actually, it does not necessarily point to a Monday: % LC_ALL=C date -d '2006-01-01 7 weeks' Sun Feb 19 00:00:00 CET 2006 Then, the second issue, is how to use something like "next Friday", or "last Monday" relatively to a date. % LC_ALL=C date -d '2006-01-01 next friday' Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 CET 2006 (silently ignoring the "next Friday" part). % LC_ALL=C date -d 'next friday after 2006-01-01' date: invalid date `next friday after 2006-01-01' Thanks in advance! _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
