date command about nagios-plugin-check_borg

[bebehei]

Ouch. FreeBSD has a -v switch, which does almost the same as --date. But neither -v nor --date are a POSIX standard.

[bebehei]

I'm vomiting, when reading the proper answer on Stackexchange.

To elaborate the use a bit more: We need the date command just to convert dates. borg gives out normal dates and also we only require relative readable dates from the user input. GNU date is awesome, as it can suck in almost every date value and spit it out the required date in the given format.

Are you able to install GNU coreutils on your system? I'm not that experienced on *BSD systems, but it looks like there is a freshport for this. If it is installable as a supplement, I'd kindly request you to install this.

[z3dm4n]

-v looks quite interesting. This could fix the problem. Installing GNU coreutils would fix the problem as well and is much easier. Seems like there is no way to bring both date commands to do the job on both platforms with there own utils without blowing the code up quite a lot. :-( Consider this issue as closed. I'll install gdate and do :%s/date/gdate/g and this should do the trick as well. If not, I'll let you know.

[bebehei]

@z3dm4n I've created #8 reflecting the necessary changes to support a DATE variable. If you could test it, I'd appreciate it.