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From: mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  slicing the date
Message-ID: <18926@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:29:50 GMT
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Alan,

	I can think of two possible choices. One, you may still have access to
a SysV environment, but it may be in /usr/usg or /usr/5bin or some such. This
will allow you to use the SysV date command with its output formatting. Two, if
the above is not true, try the following (H-hours M-minutes S-seconds):
H=`date | cut -c12-19 | cut -f1 -d':'`
M=`date | cut -c12-19 | cut -f2 -d':'`
S=`date | cut -c12-19 | cut -f3 -d':'`

these depend upon date output having the HH:MM:SS in columns 12-19

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