[lug] Creating date variables in bash

[rm at fabula.de]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:40:45PM -0600, Matt Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 14:26, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:25:39PM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 12:57, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I think I remember it understands the word "fortnight" too.  ;-)
> > > 
> > > Amazing. But it doesn't understand "last century", "next epoch" or times
> > > of the day like Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers, and
> > > Compline. Guess you can't have everything, but I'm impressed they've done
> > > as much work on dates as they have!
> > 
> > Err, but it's _GNU_, you have the source! Go add that stuff to the 
> > code and receive eternal fame :-)
> > 
> > Oh, i haven't heard "Matins"  for quite a while. Thanks.
> > 
> >  Ralf Mattes
> 
> Well, there it all is in coreutils-X.X.X/lib/getdate.?, but do you alter
> the .c or .y file.

The yacc file, off course. You really nead to extend the grammar of your
date/time expressions. 

> And why am I really thinking of doing this?  I'm a F95 man.  Maybe the
> sheer scale of units impresses me and I think date is being shorted.

Yes, down to 2 chars in some (pre-2000) Cobol code :-)

 RalfD

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