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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:33:25 +0100
From: Mark van Dijk <lists+zsh@internecto.net>
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Subject: Date prompt expansion
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Following up on my email sent yesterday where I asked a question about
pcre, the question also implied I'm doing stuff with dates.

Currently I am using two different methods of getting the today's
day/month and yesterday's day/month:

1) for today I'm using prompt expansion:
todaysDay=${(%):-%D{"%d"}}   # 26
todaysMonth=${(%):-%D{"%m"}} # 11

2) for yesterday I'm using FreeBSD's date command:
yesterdaysDay=$(/bin/date -v -1d "+%y")
yesterdaysMonth=$(/bin/date -v -1d "+%m")

I'm more fond of the first method. Can the second be done without
calling /bin/date?

Mark