LINUX HACK 10

Hack 10. 
Display Past Date and Time:
Following are various ways to display a past date and time:
$ date --date='3 seconds ago'
Thu Jan 1 08:27:00 PST 2009
$ date --date="1 day ago"
Wed Dec 31 08:27:13 PST 2008
$ date --date="1 days ago"
Wed Dec 31 08:27:18 PST 2008
$ date --date="1 month ago"
Mon Dec 1 08:27:23 PST 2008
$ date --date="1 year ago"
Tue Jan 1 08:27:28 PST 2008
$ date --date="yesterday"
Wed Dec 31 08:27:34 PST 2008
$ date --date="10 months 2 day ago"
Thu Feb 28 08:27:41 PST 2008