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From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
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Subject: Date -f fmt date - how to get it to work
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 21:46:04 -0500
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I am trying to add a hour to a date value in the format of
"YYYYmmddHHMM.SS", but when I execute the date command it returns an illegal
time format:

# date -v+1H -f '%Y%m%d%H%M.%S' 199901051000.03 +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S
Failed conversion of ``199901051000.03'' using format ``%Y%m%d%H%M.%S''
date: illegal time format

If I break-up the date into YYYY/mm/dd HH/MM/SS, then it will work.

# date -v+1H -f '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S' '1999/01/05 10:00:03' +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S
199901051100.03

What do I have to change to get the first date command to work?

Thanks,

Scot

P.S. Please CC me on any replies.



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