Add / substract time in bash

To add or substract any amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years to/from current date use the Linux date command:

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date -d ‘+2 hour’
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If you want to use specific date as a base:

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date -d ‘2010-01-01 + 2 year’
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