Re: Special date/cal needs eg. "thrid friday of july"

Hi

An example relative to this week:
ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "tuesday + 34 weeks"
[will give the next tuesday 34 weeks in the future]

An example relative to now
ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "now + 35 seconds - 3 days + 1 year"
[will give a dummy date in year 2008, based on "now" and some + and - ]

Other example
ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "3 days ago"
[no comment]

An absolute date:
ben@chimay:~ $ date -d "2007 1 jan"

could not find out how to mix absolute dates and '+' and '-'
HTH

Le jeudi 11 janvier 2007 à 16:23 +0100, Martin Klier a écrit :
> Hi Linux Admins,
> 
> is there a command to get something like "thrid friday of july" or "second 
> wednesday each month"? I crossread the manuals for date and gcal, but it 
> seems to be impossible. Next thing I found was gcal, with 
> "--period-of-fixed-dates", but I have not been able to get useful results, 
> and 
> date -d "35 tuesday" (35th tuesday of a year), but I have not been able to 
> limit it to months nor selecting the year (by the way, I do not need it).
> 
> Has somebody experience with this one, and can you give me a hint where to 
> look, or even an example?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,

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