date format in ksh

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font-family:Arial'>Sorry to deviate from the topic, but

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font-family:Arial'>I am writing a korn shell script that would exit if the date format is

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font-family:Arial'>I just need something to compare the date format passed<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  in with DD-MON-YYYY.

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font-family:Arial'>I am passing an argument to my ksh script being the date.

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font-family:Arial'>If the date is in any other format but DD-MON-YYYY the ksh must exit.

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font-family:Arial'>Eg.  sh test.ksh <st1:date Month="2" Day="5" Year="1999">02/05/1999<font face=Arial>

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font-family:Arial'>The only format excepted should be

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font-family:Arial'>sh test.ksh 02-MON-YYYY

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font-family:Arial'>  Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 20:57:10 CDT