Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 08:08:19 -0800 From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com> To: Ray Cummins <rcummins@burlco.lib.nj.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: time to seconds-since-epoch? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970204080811.009aa2d0@pop.calweb.com>
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At 10:07 AM 2/4/97 -0500, Ray Cummins wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a little program for FreeBSD that shows the current
>time in seconds from the epoch?
/bin/date +%s
will return that info from the shell.
#! /usr/bin/perl
$epoch = $^T; # sets $epoch to a likewise value - see man perlvar
# for details. Note this is the time of the start of
# the script, not the current time.
With C, "man 3 time" for details.
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