Originally Posted by slarti

There is an arithmetic syntax error in the index of the month. $month at the moment returns the string "08" and $((month)) returns the error. I really have no idea why this is so and can't be arsed to find out.

In python, it would be something like this:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
from datetime import datetime

months = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec']
month = months[datetime.now().month-1]
print month