Unix timestamp

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Sep 22 22:27:16 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Sep 23), Jez Hancock said:
> Is there a native FreeBSD shell util for returning the time in seconds
> since the Unix epoch?  date(1) doesn't seem to do this, only the
> converse with the -r switch:
> 
> [6:05:51] munk at users /home/munk# date -r "1064293551"
> Tue Sep 23 06:05:51 BST 2003

$ date -r 1064293551 +%s
1064293551
$ date +%s
1064294819

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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