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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing default time format Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 14:32:22 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 26 Message-ID: <320BAE66.603E@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32061204.4FBC@dslab.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Ian Wilkinson wrote: > > I am working on getting server parsed HTML working, and I > want to change the way that the date is formatted. Currently > the date gets displayed as "Monday, 05-Aug-96 16:23:11" > The APACHE grabs the date from FreeBSD. > Is there an easy way to do this without mangling anything > else? > -IAN Formatting the date for who? If you want to send the date in an alternate format to your Web pages, you can do it with CGI. I did a test page (not currently accessible on my site) to try this with a minimal shell script. The key lines were: echo "The current time is: "`/bin/date +'%T'` echo "The current date is: "`/bin/date +'%B %d, %Y'` If you want to reformat the date in, say, your log files, you have some serious tinkering to do. I see no point to that. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |