Re: Problems with Ut_string

I believe you are missing some quotes on line 304. Try this:

date2 = systemfunc("date -d " + date + " +'%A %H'")

Previously, the date in parentheses was calling the unix command date, not
your variable date. Hope this helps!

    Carl

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:37 PM, ugo merlini <ugomerlini@hotmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> I'm trying to make a custom date format so I extract gfs timestamp and put
> it in a format readable from linux shel comand (lines 300 and 301) and I
> obtain the right format YYYYMMDD HH (line 304) as bah command line want
>
> so i made (line 304)
>
> date2 = systemfunc("date -d '(date)' +'%A %H'")
>
> but the result is always Sunday 00
>
> Why?
>
> Regards
>
> Ugo
>
>
>
>
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