David Edwards schrieb:
> This patch adds the ability to specify time as seconds from epoch using 
> the @integer syntax. It's a (poorly-documented) gnu-ism (and has been 
> for a number of years) that is really handy for a couple things. 
> Examples: Replace ntpdate with a short script, or calculate "when is now 
> plus 45,100 seconds?".
> 
> Please consider applying.
> 
> Index: busybox/coreutils/date.c
> ===================================================================
> --- busybox/coreutils/date.c  (revision 23570)
> +++ busybox/coreutils/date.c  (working copy)
> @@ -146,6 +146,14 @@
>                                               end = '\0';
>                                       /* else end != NUL and we error out 
> */
>                               }
> +                     } else if (date_str[0] == '@') {
> +                             /* The format '@SECONDS' is a poorly-documented 
> GNU-ism. */
> +                             /* The 'SECONDS' counts from 1 Jan 1970 - just 
> like time_t. */
> +                             int seconds; /* Avoiding casting time_t */
> +                             if (sscanf(date_str, "@%d%c", &seconds, &end) < 
> 1)
> +                                     
> bb_error_msg_and_die(bb_msg_invalid_date, date_str);
> +                             tm = seconds;
> +                             memcpy(&tm_time, localtime(&tm), 
> sizeof(tm_time));
>                       } else {
>                               if (sscanf(date_str, "%2u%2u%2u%2u%u%c", 
> &tm_time.tm_mon,
>                                                       &tm_time.tm_mday, 
> &tm_time.tm_hour, &tm_time.tm_min,
>


date -u should use UTC does it work here also ?

re,
  wh
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