slicing the date

[carroll at s.cs.uiuc.edu]

RE: Slicing the date

	I've gotten several replies, and I need to clarify something -
I have tried the '+' notation on the 'date' command to get it to format its
output. The OS running here (I believe 4.3BSD) does not accept that. Any
argument is assumed to be an attempt to *set* the date, not format it,
according to the man pages and actual use. I was moved (against my will)
from SysV to BSD, and this is something that I lost - I used to use the
date '+%H:%M:%S' format, and it doesn't work anymore. That's why I have to
slice the normal output.

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