yesterday
Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: Library Commands (3)
Updated: 28 September 2008
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NAME
yesterday - return the date of yesterday 
 
SYNOPSIS
edrc/lib/yesterday
[
-h
]
yesterday 
[
"date_format"
]
 
AVAILABILITY
WA2L/edrc
 
DESCRIPTION
return the date of yesterday. By default the date is
returned in the format
YYYY-MM-DD.
 
OPTIONS
- -h
 - 
print usage message.
 - "date_format"
 - 
date format as known from the 
date(1)
command.
The following format place holders are the
most compatible ones:
- 
- %Y
 - 
year (1970...)
 - %y
 - 
last two digits of year (00..99)
 - %m
 - 
month (01..12)
 - %d
 - 
day of month (01..31)
 - %H
 - 
hour (00..23)
 - %M
 - 
minute (00..59)
 - %S
 - 
second (00..60)
 - %w
 - 
day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
 
 
 
 
ENVIRONMENT
- $TZ
 - 
Timezone setting.
 
 
EXIT STATUS
- 0
 - 
no error.
 - 2
 - 
date could not be resolved.
 - 4
 - 
usage message printed.
 
 
FILES
-
 
EXAMPLES
-
 
SEE ALSO
edrcintro(1),
date(1),
days(3),
is_weekend(3),
seconds(3),
timer(1),
today(3),
tomorrow(3)
 
NOTES
-
 
BUGS
-
 
AUTHOR
yesterday was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions
and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net . 
 
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2008
Christian Walther
This is free software; see
edrc/doc/COPYING
for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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