Valery Ushakov wrote:
> Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
>
>>> "first $WEEKDAY of next month". I am at a loss how to do this with
>>> NetBSD's date(1).
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation.
>>
>> Ok, let's try with a double invocation:
>>
>> $ date -d "$(date -d '+1 month' '+%m/01/%C%y') sat"
>> Sat Au
Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
>> "first $WEEKDAY of next month". I am at a loss how to do this with
>> NetBSD's date(1).
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> Ok, let's try with a double invocation:
>
> $ date -d "$(date -d '+1 month' '+%m/01/%C%y') sat"
> Sat Aug 1 00:00:00 CEST 2020
Alas...
for
Hi Wolfgang,
>> "first $WEEKDAY of next month". I am at a loss how to do this
> $ date -d "$(date -d '+1 month' '+%m/01/%C%y') sat"
> Sat Aug 1 00:00:00 CEST 2020
Nifty -- I would probably never have solved this. Thanks!
Martin Neitzel
Hi,
Because yesterday was unsuitable to check for the ambiguity how the second
"1" in that expression is actually parsed. Is it parsed as in:
(+1 month 1) thu
as in "go next month, its 1st, forward to Thursday",
or is it:
+1 month (1 thu)
as in "go next month (same day as to
> > I am not 100% sure how to do the job with NetBSD's date(1). I may
> > be just lucky with
> > % date -d '+1 month 1 thu'
> > Thu Aug 6 00:00:00 CEST 2020
> > because today is the 1st of July.
>
> Why wait? Try [...]
Because yesterday was unsuitable to check for the ambiguity how the s
