[Linux-disciples] Dates backwards

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2006-02-08T19:15:53-0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> My boss reminds me that we could do something sucky with the
> non-featureful date(1): have it spit out the number of
> seconds since the beginning of the epoch, subtract
> (7 days)*(24 hr/day)*(3600 sec/hr), and then feed that back
> into another instance of date(1) and have it print the date
> with the appropriate strftime(3) formatting.

Note that that may fail when you cross a daylight savings time boundary.

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