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Hello Janis!

Fri Jan 06 2017, Janis Kracht wrote to Gert Andersen:

 >>I just come to send out some files here Thursday evening several times 
 >>and wit day number for Friday.
 >> This while I was trying out to make some updated daily nodelst files for 
 >> stn and pasnet.
 >>The problem is that use of julian day for Europe and US only works early 
 >>in th morning like between midnight and midday.
 >> The best time to use julian day is do it when the world have the same 
 >> day number else have one to manage it with the number to be like ${num}-1 
 >> so the number get the right digit when it shall work automatic.

 JK>I haven't had a problem with the date, Gert..

 JK>I use this in my script:

 JK>num=`date +%j --date=Friday`
 JK>pick=`expr substr $num 2 3`
 JK>year=`date +%Y`
 JK>lastwk=$(($num -7))
 JK>lpick=`expr substr $lastwk 2 3`

 JK>Then I use the appropriate var where I need it.

 JK>Hope this helps..

Yes, I maybe should have make me a script file for each week day and then is it
 that I forgot to change the day for julian day so by each of my dailylst
script get the right week day for julian day.

  Take care,
            Gert

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