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Obsidian	2011-08-26 , 11:31
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Originally Posted by impeham

Thanks - works great, but how can i add support for an exact hour with minutes - something like between 16:30 - 18:30?

Is there a place where it is explained how to manipulate this data?

Code:

hr=`date +%H%M`

You'll have to change the if condition to

Code:

if test $hr -ge 1630 -a $hr -lt 1830

If you have the man pages installed (see here) you can use man date to get an explanation. date --help would be another option, but on maemo this is extremely short. The man pages can be referenced online on various sites throughout the net, e.g. here.

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