On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 08:43:04 -0400 Joel Hammer wrote:
> Is there a builtin function to use with bash scripts to manipulate dates,
> for example, to subtract two dates or two times and get the difference
> between them?
> Thanks,
> Joel
I use perl. There is a module in particular that has functions :
use Date::Calc qw(
Date_to_Days
Delta_Days
Add_Delta_Days
Add_Delta_DHMS
);
$days = Delta_Days($y1, $m1, $d1, $y2, $m2, $d2); # days between 2 dates
($y, $m, $d) = Add_Delta_Days($oldy, $oldm, $oldd, $days); # add days to a date
plus many, many more...
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