Hi!! I have created a script that will calculate or show that statistics of call every hour. My problem is that the file that I'm going to read for processing the stats is delayed. So when I have to get the stats on 11PM and the script runs on 12:30 it reads nothing since the posting of file is 30 mins late(Sorry If I can't explain this cleary). All I wnated is to get the time from 11PM to 1159 PM the other day even if I run the script at 12:30 of the present day. How will I subtract the one day from the current time. I have just declared a varibale of date. Please help me on this one.

Best regards,
newbie_adm

By the way.This is how I declare my date on my script. I wanted to get the date and time(11:00PM) of the prevous day. Scripts is run on the present day at 12:30 AM.

DATE1=`date '+%Y-%m-%d23'`

date --date="1 day ago"

Can I retain the same format date That I have declared awhile ago? Can it is the format of the date of the file that my script is going to read.

Can I retain the same format date That I have declared awhile ago?
You mean you didn't even bother to *test* combining those arguments?