[GRASSLIST:5859] Re: scripting: time with awk/python/perl???

[Hamish]

> Hello, I'm writing a shall script calling different grass 
> command, but i need to handle datetime variables: how can 
> it be done?


for the script processing?

Did you try the "date" program?

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but maybe this helps:


DATE_STR=`date +"%d %b %Y"`
echo $DATE_STR


It is often useful to use julian days if you have to do any processing
based on the date:

JULIAN_DAY=`date +"%j"`
YEAR=`date +"%Y"`



see also the r.timestamp module




Hamish