Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The date command documentation doesn't say how to turn
> $ date +%s
> 1055452108
> back into something readable.
There is an example showing how to do that:
* If you're sorting or graphing dated data, your raw date values may
be represented as seconds since the epoch. But few people can
look at the date `946684800' and casually note "Oh, that's the
first second of the year 2000 in Greenwich, England."
date --date='2000-01-01 UTC' +%s
946684800
To convert such an unwieldy number of seconds back to a more
readable form, use a command like this:
# local time zone used
date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 946684800 seconds' +"%Y-%m-%d %T %z"
1999-12-31 19:00:00 -0500
> Please add it to "Pure numbers in date strings::"
But as you can see, the example date string is far from being
a `pure decimal number'. However, I'd be happy to add a note
there telling how to convert the output of `date +%s' back into
a readable date. Would you like to write that?
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