Re: Problem printing 24 hour times

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strip leading 0 away

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022, 16:16 Chris Elvidge <celvidge001@gmail.com> wrote:

> Given tim12="7:00 am" and tim24=$(date -d"$tim12" +"%H%M")
>
> printf '%04d' "$tim24" prints 0488; '%04o' will output 0700
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> But if tim12="7:00 pm" and tim24=$(date -d"$tim12" +"%H%M")
> '%04d' gives the correct output 1900 but '%04o' gives 3554
>
> I have got round the problem with tim24=$(date -d"$tim12" +"%-H%M") i.e.
> stripping leading zeros, but is there any way to force printf to
> recognise 0700 as a decimal number?
>
> --
> Regards
> Chris Elvidge
> England
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