Create a date in the future for use in Bash scripts on BSD/Mac OSX
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Create a date in the future for use in Bash scripts on BSD/Mac OSX
Mattias Geniar, May 14, 2020
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Annoyingly, the date command differs vastly between Linux & BSD systems. Mac, being based on BSD, inherits the BSD version of that date command.
It took me longer to admit to figure out how to set a date in the future using the date command on a Mac. It requires this arcane syntax.
EXPIRATIONDATE=$(date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date -v+12H`" "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:00")
The above takes “now + 12 hours” as the new date, and formats it as "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:00" - the last parameter.
The -f flag indicates how to parse the date format supplied by the middle parameter.
To get a date in the future, you use the -v command and supply the desired date shift:
date -v+12H
This generates a new date 12 hours into the future. To supply multiple shifts, repeat the -v parameter.
date -v+12H -v-1d -v+10M
Which does: + 12 hours, -1 day, + 10 minutes.
The long command at the top outputs this:
2020-05-15T08:37:00
I hope I won’t have to Google this again!
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