Comments on: Download of the day: Easy date manipulation with yest utility under Linux/UNIX

By: Yogesh

Yogesh — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:46:16 +0000

gr8 …. its rocks on tru64
i hav used following command to compile

cc -o yest yest-2.7.0.3.c
now i can do all date manuculation as i used to do it with GNU date

Thanks

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:43:20 +0000

What about when timezone identifiers change?
Like MST to MDT?

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:00:22 +0000

May be you need headers files…

By: Don Eytel

Don Eytel — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:33:55 +0000

Problem compiling an idea.

gcc -o /home/deytel/bin/yest /home/deytel/yest-2.7.0.4.c
/home/deytel/yest-2.7.0.4.c: In function `main’:
/home/deytel/yest-2.7.0.4.c:1470: structure has no member named `tm_zone’

By: bleh

bleh — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:24:39 +0000

ehm… you have never tried

date -d “yesterday” or date -d “+10 days” have you?

date already does all this…

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:57:58 +0000

Tiger

Sometime you have 29, 28 (leap year), 30, 31 as month-end day. Sometime day pattern get repeated as 31, 31 (july, aug).

I don\’t just wanna keep changing at command according to month. I manage 100 of boxes I don\’t have time to keep writing at command for each box. So this tool makes for sense to me.

By: tiger

tiger — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:41:38 +0000

what about using AT or CRON?

> at 00:00 Aug 31
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