A date related doubt

Sherlock · 11-08-2007, 02:01 AM

Hi

I just want to confirm...

date "+%d%m%Y"

if the month is Feb does it return value as 02 or 2

I want it as 02....

its on a solaris & red hat linux

i know it sounds silly but i cant change the time settings to verify and i am a newbie to unix programming....

Regards

colucix · 11-08-2007, 02:05 AM

Code:

colucix@linux:~> date -d "Sun Feb 11 09:03:09 CET 2007" +%d%m%Y
11022007

bigearsbilly · 11-08-2007, 04:22 AM

yes, usually I think.
man date

Sherlock · 11-08-2007, 06:59 AM

Thanks guys..

there wasnt any -d option here..

only -a and -u

man date...i tried...but want helpful except that %d

but i wanted to run and check the result in this particluar OS

Regards

colucix · 11-08-2007, 07:31 AM

Ok. Anyway, I can confirm that the %m format gives always two digits. If you check the man page

Code:

%m     month (01..12)

this tells you about the two digits format.

Sherlock · 11-08-2007, 07:50 AM

Thanks for the confirmation.......colucix!!!!!!