Date setting in Linux or Apache

rspenn · 02-23-2001, 11:54 PM

HI,

I'm new to this stuff and have searched hours but can't figure this one out and I'm sure someone knows this one.

I'm trying to add a date field to a web page on a Linux 6.2 box with apache 1.3. Under UNIX the path is usr/sbin/date to add the following:

Here is the command:
date_command = "/sbin/date";

$date = `$date_command +"%A, %B %d, %Y at %T (%Z)"`; chop($date);
$shortdate = `$date_command +"%D %T %Z"`; chop($shortdate);

Tuesday, January 30, 2001 at 17:22:00 (EST)

Any ideas?

crabboy · 02-24-2001, 08:40 PM

rspenn,

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking for in you post. I assume you are trying to write a perl script to display the date in a cgi script. Your date commands are correct, so I guess you need help to display them? The perl script below, using your date commands, display the date in a web page. If this is not the answer you were looking for then please supply more details... by the way... any executables in an sbin directory should never be executable by non privileged users. My date exec is under /bin

showdate.cgi:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$date_command = "/bin/date";
$date = `$date_command +"%A, %B %d, %Y at %T (%Z)"`; chop($date);
$shortdate = `$date_command +"%D %T %Z"`; chop($shortdate);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML>";

print "$date\n";

print "</HTML>";

rspenn · 02-24-2001, 09:32 PM

You know, I feel real stupid, but looking over your script I realized that I was looking in /usr/bin not /bin so I couldn't find the date command. Really dumb, could have prevented a lot of stress and hours of digging. On the other hand, I did learn a lot in the search about other topics so not a loss.

Thanks for the Reply!
Ryan

jeremy · 02-25-2001, 11:04 AM

Perl has a bunch of builtin date stuff too. Something like this will also work:

Code:

print scalar(localtime);