[SOLVED] How to add 5 minutes to the time

santosh0782 · 03-20-2014, 01:45 AM

i have jobs and their schedule run time as:

#JOB SCHEDULES
A 05:30
B 06:57
C 06:59
D 07:58

i want to add 5 mins to their schedule and display the new time ? How could we do that? could someone please help?

TenTenths · 03-20-2014, 02:59 AM

You provide no usable information whatsoever.

Where are these jobs defined? What are you using to display the current time? Are these cron jobs? jobs within an application? or website?

We have no psychic powers, give us a clue.

santosh0782 · 03-20-2014, 04:29 AM

Hi,
Actually, the requirement is here:

currTime=$( date +'%R' ) # HH:MM
currHour=$( date +'%H' ) # HH
currMin=$( date +'%M' ) # MM

scheduled_time:
05:30
06:40
06:45
07:15
08:10
08:30
08:35
09:15
09:30
09:35

13:15
13:25
13:30
14:20
14:40
14:45
17:45
18:00
18:05
18:40
19:00
18:30
19:05

22:15
23:00
23:15
23:55
05:30
06:00

everyday i have to check:

if [[ "$currTime" == "$(scheduled_time +5 minutes)" ]]
then
do something
fi

how to add 5 minutes to the above scheduled_times?

colucix · 03-20-2014, 04:55 AM

If using GNU date you can try the -d option of the command:

Code:

date -d "$currTime 5 minutes" +%R

santosh0782 · 03-20-2014, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colucix

If using GNU date you can try the -d option of the command:

Code:

date -d "$currTime 5 minutes" +%R

Thanks a lot.. its working fine :-)