[ic] formatting a date string

Jim Balcom interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 09:18:00 2001


On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Corey Gilmore wrote:

CG>>Whats the best way to format a date string (from a [data] query)?
CG>>The string would be similar to 20010622
CG>>The time tag only works with the current time...

Here's what I use at midnight every night to change my order numbers to
reflect yymmddseq

I hope that this will help!

perl -e '($d,$m,$y)=(localtime)[3,4,5]; printf
"%s%02d%02d%02d%02d","#COUNTER-1.0\n",$y-100,$m+1,$d,"00";' >
/home/interch/catalogs/diaperstore/etc/order.number

(all on one line)

-= Jim =-

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