Andrew Parker: >> For bash the following will display 061 if its currently a leap year, >> 060 otherwise >> >> date -d "$(date +%Y)/03/01" +%j Kevin J. Cummings: > It doesn't work with dates after 2037/03/01 .... Leaving you with thirty years to develop a solution, or spend a few minutes pondering whether to bother... ;-) But seriously, although some might think you don't need to worry about such things, there are programs that will need to do some work using a date from the future. The matter is more urgent than immediately obvious. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
