[plug] Command to find out a particular date occurence

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Tue Jan 14 16:54:34 WST 2003


On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Brad Browne wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In this spirit of the units utility, is there a calendar utility that will
> allow me to type the date, like Jan 21 Fri or similar, and it will tell me
> what year it will fall in ?  BTW, after Leon hit the list with a description
> of units I have been using it ever since, so kudos to you Leon !!

man date

tony at balder:~$ date -d 'Jan 21'
Tue Jan 21 00:00:00 WST 2003
tony at balder:~$ date -d 'Jan 21 1977'
Fri Jan 21 00:00:00 WST 1977


Th man page and or the usage page will give you more info.

Yours Tony

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