"yesterdate" function?

[Stu Heiss]

In article <3562 at emory.uucp> arnold at emory.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}) writes:
-In article <19100001 at hpficad.HP.COM> mcr at hpficad.HP.COM (Matt Reprogle) writes:
->I need a way to get yesterday's date in YYMMDD format in a Unix script and put
->it in a file.   I don't want to write a C program implementing an entire
->calendar to do it. 
->
->Can anyone help?  
-
-This is too hard to pass up.
-[short c program deleted]

add 24 to your tz offset (example 6 for cdt; 6+24=30) and do
	$ TZ=30 date +%y%m%d
if you don't know your tz offset do:
	$ echo $TZ
-- 
Stu Heiss {gargoyle.uchicago.edu,uunet.uu.net,spl1,ddsw1}!jpusa1.uucp!stu