Re: touch for you BSD gurus

From	Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject	Re: touch for you BSD gurus
Date	2011-06-14 22:00 -0400
Organization	My Mac Laptop
Message-ID	<bob-E8AB43.22001814062011@5ad64b5e.bb.sky.com> (permalink)
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<nospam.News.Bob-8E77F7.21570213062011@news.eternal-september.org>,
 Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> wrote:

> I do not have any problems using any number of months to go back 
> years.  For example:
> 
>     date -v -165d
>     Thu Dec 30 21:51:55 EST 2010
> 
>     date -v -530d
>     Wed Dec 30 21:52:59 EST 2009

You're right!  I don't know why it didn't work right for me the first 
time.  I just tried date -v -7m and got

Sun Nov 14 21:57:46 EST 2010

I wonder if the formatting had anything to do with it.

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touch for you BSD gurus Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2011-06-12 12:54 -0400
  Re: touch for you BSD gurus Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2011-06-12 20:26 -0400
    Re: touch for you BSD gurus Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2011-06-13 07:57 -0400
      Re: touch for you BSD gurus Bob Harris <nospam.News.Bob@remove.Smith-Harris.us> - 2011-06-13 21:57 -0400
        Re: touch for you BSD gurus Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2011-06-14 22:00 -0400

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