Originally posted by: John2006

Hi All,

I would like to display date and time in AIX command prompt by using "date". May I know that the "date" command can display past five minutes time? For example: the current time is "2015 Jan 11, 13:30". I would like the date command can show 2015 Jan 11 13:25". 

Regards

John

Originally posted by: Wouter Liefting

I couldn't think of an easy way to do this with shell constructs and/or the date command only. However, in perl it's easy.

($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime( time() - 5);

print "$hour:$min:$sec";

You can include perl code in the perl call with -e, so from the shell this would become:

perl -e  ' ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime( time() - 5); print "$hour:$min:$sec"; '

Obviously the "- 5" is the offset, and the print "$hour:$min:$sec" can be modified to generate any output you need.

Be aware that the $year is the current year minus 1900, and that $mon starts counting from 0. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html

If you are happy with the default scalar output of localtime ( for example Mon Mar  9 15:03:18 2015 ) you could even do this:

perl -e '$string = localtime( time - 5 ); print $string;'

Originally posted by: N.Venkat

If you want to show 5 mins before from current time window  then you may use alias, and customize the command what output you want. with out disturb your current date settings

else still its possible but depends on the server use. ( means in case if you use the server in real world still you need to customize using alias else its stand alone not in real world use, of course every one know easiest way to set date manually enter the time. )

Originally posted by: L.Sarrazin

Hi,

As I reviewed forum threads, I thought of the variant date command which comes from linux binaries; for example:

root@nimtsm01(/usr/linux/bin)# oslevel -s
6100-09-04-1441
root@nimtsm01(/usr/linux/bin)# date ; /usr/linux/bin/date --date='1 min ago' +%y%m%d%M%S
Wed Jun 10 11:05:42 CEST 2015
1506100442

Really useful for time travel.

Regards

L. Sarrazin

Originally posted by: GarlandJoseph

lol...time travel, now if I could only get some flux capacitors and a  Delorian.

Originally posted by: pillow

hi,

perl -MPOSIX -le 'print strftime "%c", localtime(time()-300)'