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Re: How to calculate date relative to another date?
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Leslie S Satenstein |
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Re: How to calculate date relative to another date? |
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Wed, 22 May 2019 03:53:05 +0000 (UTC) |
Try repositioning or adding ago as
date --date='2018-05-01 4 years ago 11 months ago' +%Y%m
Regards
Leslie
Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada
On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 9:17:27 p.m. GMT-4, Peng Yu <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Seems to work fine when date specification is not quite as ambiguous
> as "2018/05".
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> $ date --iso --date='2018-05-01 5 years ago'
> 2013-05-01
What is special about --iso? If I use the following date string, I get
a future time. Why?
$ date --date='2018-05-01 4 years 11 months ago' +%Y%m
202106
201306
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Regards,
Peng
Re: How to calculate date relative to another date?, Egmont Koblinger, 2019/05/23