RE: OT ksh day of week yesterday

This is an offset of 26 hours. But from what I understand this solution has a problem since some systems don't accept offsets over 24 hours and if timezone is west of GMT then you can't set the offset far enough for it to work. In another words, it's not a portable solution.

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My TZ is EST5EDT and I think the 5 implies GMT-05:00 What does the 26 in EST26EDT imply?

Just curious.
Ed

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yesterday=$(TZ=EST26EDT date +%a)

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Barbara Baker wrote:

>
> Will someone take pity on this poor VMS'er lost in a unix world??
>
> I'm trying to create a script (ksh) that reads a log file created
> yesterday. The log files are created with `date +%a` appended to the
> end of the log file name. Last night a log file was created called
> arc_indexlog.Tue It's easy enough to get today
>
> TDAY="`date +%a`"
> grep -i "ora" /orasrv/ops/maint/logs/arc_indexlog.$TDAY
> grep -i "ora" /orasrv/ops/maint/logs/adv_indexlog.$TDAY
>
> but how do I get yesterday in the same format? (i.e., Tue instead of Wed)
I man'd date, but it was no help.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Barb
>
>
>
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