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Re: Date prompt expansion

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From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Date prompt expansion
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:15:18 -0500
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At 11:46 +0000 26 Nov 2012, Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Up to oddities with leap seconds, you can do it by

zmodload zsh/datetime
strftime -s yesterdaysDay "+%d" $(( EPOCHSECONDS - 24 * 60 * 60 ))

Unless I'm missing something, that would also have problems around thebeginning and end of daylight saving time, for a whole hour in each caserather than just for a single second as with leap seconds.

References:
- Date prompt expansion
  - From: Mark van Dijk
- Re: Date prompt expansion
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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