Date format question

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I have a string that looks like this:

2008 04 09 18 45 30 0

I would like to convert it to a date format like this:

Wed Apr 09 18:45:30.000 GMT 2008

I have been searching all over and can't find anything to help me. I am using ksh on a sun solaris unix machine. Thank you.

Allyson

2

ksh93 is now available for Solaris (or you may be able to use dtksh which is part of CDE) and includes support for date string manipulation. I am not sure how you figure out the time zone or microseconds so I just hard coded these two items into the following example.

#!/usr/bin/ksh93

str="2008 04 09 18 45 30 0"
dstr=${str:0:10}
hstr=${str:11:8}

printf "%(%a %b %d %T.000 GMT %Y)T\n" "${dstr// /-} ${hstr// /:}"

outputs

Wed Apr 09 18:45:30.000 GMT 2008
3

hi,

what about this

Regards,
Bash