Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-06 Thread will trillich
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Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. However I can't

Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:12:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:26:08PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with

Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread Stan Brown
I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what is the STRING fomrat? -- Stan Brown

Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what

RE: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 04-May-2001 Stan Brown wrote: I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, it's apparent that I need the --date option, but what is

Re: Example of date sytax to return a date in the past?

2001-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:09:11PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: I know thta it's possible to sue the GNU version of date, as provided with Debian to return a dat, say 30 minutes in the past. However I can't seem to get the syntax quie correct. From the man page, it's apparent that I need the