Hi,
> Rick, Jiri,
> many thanks, I'm trying to get this done;
> egrep works good, I was trying to shortcut date comparison thing by
> converting to seconds, BUT, hit a snag as my system is set to:
> # set | grep LANG
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
check also the LC_* variables:
set | grep LC_
> # date --date='20/03/2014' +"%s"
> date: invalid date `20/03/2014'
> # date --date='03/20/2014' +"%s"
> 1395234000
> which I think means assumed format is mm dd yy ?
Yes; 1395234000 is 20 Mar 2014.
> where should I change it to en_au ?
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8; export LANG
>> Of course, all of this would be much easier to code in python, perl or
>> ruby.
> I'll look at that next time, thanks
It's probably still worthwhile switching even now — you haven't even
started with the ics/vcal generation and so on...
Jiri
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