[lug] Creating date variables in bash

[Matt Thompson]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 13:50, Matt Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 12:57, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > Matt Thompson wrote:
> > 
> > >Add your format string after it.  One of those useless things I learned
> > >a long time ago..."1 week ago" works too.  You start playing around with
> > >-d way too much after learning about it.
> > >
> > >Matt
> > >  
> > >
> > I think I remember it understands the word "fortnight" too.  ;-)
> 
> Yeah.  And "this" which has made some scripts nice, like for "cron-ish"
> things.  Just say "this friday" or the like.  Here is the GNU coreutils
> bits about date:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_chapter/coreutils_27.html#SEC168
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out uses for "this".  Probably something in
> logging...

Sorry, I meant "this hour" or "this minute".  It accepts them, but
doesn't change anything.
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