This method may be out of date, but if you add the CPAN for Date::Calc to a perl script you can write a script that will manipulate a given date to add / subtract dates and give days of the week, months etc as output or viseversa David -----Original Message----- From: linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Klier Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:24 AM To: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Special date/cal needs eg. "thrid friday of july" Hi Linux Admins, is there a command to get something like "thrid friday of july" or "second wednesday each month"? I crossread the manuals for date and gcal, but it seems to be impossible. Next thing I found was gcal, with "--period-of-fixed-dates", but I have not been able to get useful results, and date -d "35 tuesday" (35th tuesday of a year), but I have not been able to limit it to months nor selecting the year (by the way, I do not need it). Has somebody experience with this one, and can you give me a hint where to look, or even an example? Thanks a lot in advance, -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen i.A. Martin Klier Systemadministration / Datenbanken ----------------------------------------------------------------- A.T.U Auto-Teile-Unger Handels GmbH & Co. KG - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
