Unix timestamp

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:07:50AM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote:
> 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
> 
> Just curious - I ended up making a simple C app that does the job.

This works for me:

    ~,9:57pm> date '+%s'
    1064311041

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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