Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:58:35 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix timestamp Message-ID: <20030923095835.GC62839@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20030923050750.GA38213@users.munk.nu> References: <20030923050750.GA38213@users.munk.nu>
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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@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@chen.org.nz>
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