Re: date minus one

One trick is to temporarily advance the TZ to a time zone further west, get your date, and then reset TZ again:

$ echo $TZ
MST7MDT
$ date +"%Y-%m-%d"
2005-03-29
$ TZ=MST22MDT
$ date +"%Y-%m-%d"
2005-03-28
$ TZ=MST7MDT
$

Knight, Jon wrote:
> Just curious how the rest of the world gets "yesterday" in UNIX. We're
> running Solaris and we execute a sqlplus script with "select sysdate-1 from
> dual;" and pipe it to tail to set an environment variable.
>
> Is there a more UNIXy way, -or- maybe a java function. Any suggestions
> welcome.
>
> TIA,
> Jon Knight
>
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