Am 29. Mar, 2013 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: moin moin, > Looking to change some file dares to 14 hours later than the current file > date/time stamps (they are NOT all the same). I was thinking some form of > the -d option would work but nothing I have tried works- $ date; touch -d "$( date -d "+14 hours" +%Y%b%d )" /tmp/fred; ls -l /tmp/fred Fr 29. Mär 16:57:45 MST 2013 -rw-r--r-- 1 lufthans lufthans 0 2013-03-30 01:13 /tmp/fred The "+14 hours" only works with GNU date, but that's what we get on GNU/Linux. BSD date really didn't like it :). ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ # Free, Libre, and Open Source enthusiasts are collaborators. Maybe we're # involved for slightly different reasons, but in the end, we're all # essentially trying to go the same direction. -- der.hans, 2012Jan25