Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:32:03 -0800 (PST) From: <keith@mail.telestream.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Odd date output Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002181423360.28091-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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I'm running 3.4-Stable and have writen a realy nifty web based billing
program for us. In testing it I've run into a odd 'date' error that is
hosing my entire system.
In portions of the script(s) I'm nabing the date as such
DATE=`/bin/date +%G%m%d`
All works fine there and I get what I want.
In other parts of the script(s) I use date in a different format
CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date +%m`
This also works fine with the desired output.
BUT,,, when I test things to make sure is all fine I step up the
CURRENT_MONTH with this command
CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date -v March +%m`
This works fine for EVERY month except for May. When I change the
CURRENT_MONTH to be
CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date -v May +%m` It errors out big time with this.
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May: Cannot apply date adjustment
usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]]
...
[-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
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Any clue as to why it would work fine on all other date adjustments with
May being the execption?
Thank you.
Keith
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