Interesting Solaris 9 answer - works on my HP-UX 11i master as well.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ron Jack
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:47 PM
To: Stump, Bob A; veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] date calculator

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Stump,
Bob A
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:16 PM
To: veritas-bu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] date calculator


Does anyone know how I can recalculate what a date would be if I added
558
days to it?
For instance, what date would it be 558 days after July 7, 2008?


On a Solaris 9 master server (no "date -d", no stat command, *with*
bpdbm
;-), Eastern time:

# truss -v stat touch -t 200807070000 foo 2>&1 | grep at | tail -1 | awk
'{ print $9 }'
1215403200
# expr 558 \* 86400
48211200
# expr 1215403200 + 48211200
1263614400
# bpdbm -ctime 1263614400
1263614400 = Fri Jan 15 23:00:00 2010

HTH,

Ron

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