Hi An example relative to this week: ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "tuesday + 34 weeks" [will give the next tuesday 34 weeks in the future] An example relative to now ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "now + 35 seconds - 3 days + 1 year" [will give a dummy date in year 2008, based on "now" and some + and - ] Other example ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "3 days ago" [no comment] An absolute date: ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "2007 1 jan" could not find out how to mix absolute dates and '+' and '-' HTH Le jeudi 11 janvier 2007 à 16:23 +0100, Martin Klier a écrit : > 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, - 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
