[Remind-Fans] Can remind "count" time?

[Sector11]

I REALLY LIKE "remind fans"

Did not know about dpkg-query (or forgot) - must get into the manpage on that
again.

Thank you...

 20 Feb 20 @ 00:58:58 ~
   $ dateutils.ddiff 2020-02-19 2042-02-29 -f '%yy %ww %dd'
22y 1w 2d
 
 20 Feb 20 @ 01:00:08 ~
   $ echo "Bob will be 47 in $(dateutils.ddiff 2020-02-19 2042-02-29 -f '%yy
 %ww %dd')"
Bob will be 47 in 22y 1w 2d

Thank you taekoocair
Bruce



On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:36:45 +0900
taekoocair--- via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> In general, you can use dpkg-query to find out what files an installed dep
> package provides:
> 
>     $ dpkg-query -L dateutils
>     ...
>     /usr/bin/dateutils.dadd
>     /usr/bin/dateutils.dconv
>     /usr/bin/dateutils.ddiff
>     /usr/bin/dateutils.dgrep
>     /usr/bin/dateutils.dround
>     ...
> 
> So it looks like Debian installs the binaries with a special prefix.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sector11 <sector11sr71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Awesome Larry thank you ...
> > 
> > If not one problem another.
> > Dateutils is installed but cannot find ddiff ????
> > -------------------
> >    $ apt list -a --installed dateutils
> > Listing... Done
> > dateutils/stable,now 0.4.3-1 amd64 [installed]
> > 
> >    $ ddiff 2020-02-19 2042-02-29 -f '%yy %ww %dd'
> > bash: ddiff: command not found
> > 
> > Thank you will ask questions in my Linux Forum
> > Bruce
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:12:52 +0000
> > Larry Hynes via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
> >   
> > > Dianne Skoll <dianne at skoll.ca> wrote:  
> > > > On 2020-02-18 09:36, Sector11 wrote:
> > > >     
> > > > > Bob (will be) 47 in 3m 6d
> > > > > Christmas (in) 5m 16d
> > > > > Debian 11 (in) 3y 5m 18d    
> > > > 
> > > > Remind does not have a built-in way to express a duration as X
> > > > years, Y months and Z days.  In general, there's no way to express a
> > > > time interval that way unless you know the duration in days and the
> > > > starting point (or equivalently, the ending point.)    
> > > 
> > > OT, but of possible help to the OP, I think ddiff(1) from
> > > dateutils[0] will do what's required e.g., the command:
> > > 
> > > 	ddiff today 2042-02-29 -f '%yy %ww %dd'
> > > 
> > > yields the result:
> > > 
> > > 	22y 1w 2d
> > > 
> > > It would probably be easy enough to get remind to RUN a suitable
> > > script or command, or incorporate it with remind's output in some
> > > way.
> > > 
> > > $ cat test.rem
> > > REM Feb 19 MSG Test
> > > 
> > > $ cat test.sh
> > > 
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > 
> > > remind ~/test.rem
> > > 
> > > echo "Bob will be 47 in $(ddiff today 2042-02-29 -f '%yy %ww %dd')"
> > > 
> > > $ sh test.sh
> > > 
> > > Reminders for Wednesday, 19th February, 2020 (today):
> > > 
> > > Test
> > > 
> > > Bob will be 47 in 22y 1w 2d
> > > 
> > > [0]: https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
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