dateutils is a collection of command line utilities for working with dates, times, and date-time values in the shell.
The project provides dedicated tools for tasks such as arithmetic, comparison, sorting, sequence generation, parsing, timezone conversion, and calendar conversion, making it useful for scripting, data processing, and other workflows that need fast, repeatable date handling.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides separate utilities including dateadd, dateconv, datediff, dategrep, dateround, dateseq, datesort, datetest, datezone, and strptime.
- Adds or subtracts durations from dates, times, and date-time values.
- Generates chronological sequences of dates or times with options such as skipping specific weekdays.
- Converts between calendric representations and performs bulk timezone conversions.
- Calculates differences between dates and times with configurable output formats.
- Sorts date and time values chronologically and compares them in shell scripts.
- Extracts and converts date or time occurrences from input streams.
- Supports leap-second aware calculations.
Website: github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils
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Developer: Sebastian Freundt
License: BSD 3-Clause License
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Related Software
| Alternatives to date | |
|---|---|
| datemath | Date and time math utility |
| rdate | Retrieve date and time from other machines |
| qtime | Clock coded in Rust |
| hodie | The classic Latin replacement for date |
| bttf | datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting |
| dateutils | Collection of command line utilities |
| dtg | date/time CLI utility and library |
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