Quoting Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 12, 2002 18:43]: > Modified Julian Dates are completely numeric and therefore > suitable for all Earthlings (not just astronomers) but > unfortunately my /bin/date, from Red Hat's sh-utils-2.0-11 RPM, > doesn't support them. It really should.
Completely unrelated to the rest of this thread, but: $ rpm -qi sh-utils | head -2 | cut -c-30 Name : sh-utils Version : 2.0.11 $ /bin/date +%j 072 The sh-utils on my RH 7.2 box seems to support julian dates just fine. (darren) -- We are not who we think we are. We are not who others think we are. We are who we think others think we are. -- Anonymous