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From: stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: "yesterdate" function?
Message-ID: <1033@jpusa1.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 05:48:17 GMT
References: <19100001@hpficad.HP.COM> <3562@emory.uucp>
Reply-To: stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss,6312,6334,)
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In article <3562@emory.uucp> arnold@emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}) writes:
-In article <19100001@hpficad.HP.COM> mcr@hpficad.HP.COM (Matt Reprogle) writes:
->I need a way to get yesterday's date in YYMMDD format in a Unix script and put
->it in a file.   I don't want to write a C program implementing an entire
->calendar to do it. 
->
->Can anyone help?  
-
-This is too hard to pass up.
-[short c program deleted]

add 24 to your tz offset (example 6 for cdt; 6+24=30) and do
	$ TZ=30 date +%y%m%d
if you don't know your tz offset do:
	$ echo $TZ
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Stu Heiss {gargoyle.uchicago.edu,uunet.uu.net,spl1,ddsw1}!jpusa1.uucp!stu