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From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Yesterday
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Date: 10 Dec 90 16:40:31 GMT
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In article <1990Dec04.175617.5465@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:

% What's the easiest way to get yesterday's date in a string?  After some
% poking around, give or take a time zone, this seems to do the trick:
% 
%  $ TZ=EST29EDT date

This is very cute.  It works for stamping mail wrong, too.  Well,
almost.  If the recipient doesn't look carefully, you fool him.
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