date to number

[eliav schmulewitz]

hi
i would like to turn a string date to a number
what i have done is this:

 'q time'
date=subwrd(result,3)
hour=substr(date,1,3)
day=substr(date,4,2)
year=substr(date,9,10)
'!date -d 'date' +%m'
month=result

but it does not work i think it does not read becuase it is from the shell
does anyone have an idea?
eliav
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