Well, 30 days is a much better approximation then 2 fortnights. Okay, lets ask another question. What do you propose?
thanks, Singer On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Frank Bulk <frnk...@iname.com> wrote: > True, no April 31st, but there's an April 30. =) > > I don't understand why it's OK to assume a 30-day month. If someone wants > 30 days then just do a "date -d '-30 days'" -- one could just as well > assume > the 1 month is 4 weeks or two fortnights. > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan [mailto:lo...@redigloo.org] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:30 AM > To: frnk...@iname.com > Cc: Tech@lists.lopsa.org > Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Date function seems assume 30-day month > > "Thirty days hath September, April, June and November..." > > There is no 31st April. > > $ date -d '-1 month' > Tue May 1 15:28:44 BST 2012 > $ date -d '-2 month' > Sat Mar 31 15:28:52 BST 2012 > > Jonathan. > > On 31/05/12 15:22, Frank Bulk wrote: > > I noticed a daily script was giving out some incorrect output, and > looking > > at it more closely I saw that the date function assumes a 30-day month: > > > > nagios:/# date > > Thu May 31 09:22:02 CDT 2012 > > nagios:/#nagios:/# date -d '-1 month' > > Tue May 1 09:19:54 CDT 2012 > > nagios:/# > > > > Shouldn't the output be April 31st? > > > > Frank > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tech mailing list > > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- > Jonathan Crompton > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- -- Try Pythian managed services risk-free for operational support, upgrades/migrations, special projects or increased performance.
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