Dates and Times

[SOL9MAN]

Is there a way in Unix Scripting to carry out mathematical functions on dates.

I need to add 120 minutes to a YYYYMMDDHHMM date string that i derived from the Unix date function.

regards

 

[vgersh99]

convert it to epoch time, do your math, convert the result back in the desired format.

vlad
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[olded]

Here's an article on doing data arithmetic:

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=8284/sam0307b/0307b.htm