I discovered myself on a unix system with a ‘date’ utility that only accepts the -u and + parameters, a fairly basic perl install, and lots of archives that are listed by the “Julian day” (day of year) date. I put together a perl script using the functions I had at my disposal. The script [...]
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Date formatting for Single Unix Specification(R) versions of “date”
The date command is wonderful for formatting dates, as such date –date="2010-01-01" +%Y%j But what happens when you’re on a system whose date command only supports the -u [UTC] and + [for formatting] options? Below is a quick hack in straight C that provides the ability to format a date that you provide. This is [...]
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