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#1 2021-06-22 11:41:03
- brontosaurusrex
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Day of the week from date?
date "+%u" --date 20210603 # returns
4as expected, but how does it know that date is YYYYMMDD? I mean, am i missing some localization trick here or will this example always work correctly?
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#2 2021-06-22 13:19:58
- johnraff
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Re: Day of the week from date?
See the DATE STRING section near the bottom of 'man date'. 
...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
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#3 2021-06-23 06:25:26
- brontosaurusrex
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Re: Day of the week from date?
^The happy/overly optimistic part that mostly everything goes?
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#4 2021-06-23 06:54:12
- johnraff
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Re: Day of the week from date?
Seems to be...
...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), now on Bluesky, there's also some GitStuff )
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