Date Format yyymmdd

lindhum · 08-18-2007, 11:25 AM

How do I get the date variable to return format yyymmdd?

Robhogg · 08-18-2007, 11:46 AM

I'm assuming that your referring to displaying the date in the shell/ via a shell script. Not sure about yyy (three figure year?) - do you mean yyyy?

You can get a full list of the formatting codes with man date. Today's date, formatted is given by:

date +'<format string>'

The <format string> can include spaces and separator characters such as "/" as well as the formatting codes.

Rob

Wim Sturkenboom · 08-19-2007, 01:23 AM

You can use a workaround

Code:

dy=$((`date +%Y` - 2000))
d3=`printf "%03d\n" "$dy"`
echo $d3

The first line will get the year and subtract 2000.
The second line creates a string with a minimum of 3 characters.
The last line echoes it to demonstrate.

lindhum · 08-19-2007, 04:22 PM

That got me through, thanks.