The last date example in the manual gives a way to convert seconds since the epoch to a readable date. But that does not work for dates during which DST is in effect in the local timezone. For example, in the Europe/Berlin timezone: $ date --date='2000-08-01 UTC' +%s 965088000 $ date -d '1970-01-01 965088000 sec' +"%Y-%m-%d %T %z" 2000-08-01 01:00:00 +0200 $ date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 965088000 sec' +"%Y-%m-%d %T %z" 2000-08-01 03:00:00 +0200 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something SuSE Labs completely different." [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH, Schanz�ckerstr. 10, D-90443 N�rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
