On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:25:05AM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > > > Package: popularity-contest > > > Version: 1.28 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > > > > I was interested in converting the atime and ctime "time_t" integers found > > > in my popularity contest reports into a human-readable date. I eventually > > > ran across the "ctime()" function in Python's "time" module which did the > > > conversion I wanted, but I wasn't able to find any "simple" command line > > > utility that was able to convert in that direction. > > > > > > (For example, the "date" command's %s format directive will return the > > > time_t integer for the date being displayed, but the --date= option > > > doesn't seem to let me specify a date using the time_t integer.) > > > > IMHO, this should rather be reported as a wishlist to the date utility. > > You can use > > date -d "$((`date +%s` - $DATE )) seconds ago" > > For what it's worth, I eventually found that the Info documentation for "date" > does contain a page of examples: > info coreutiles "examples of date" > > That page suggests using the following syntax to do the > time_t-to-readable conversion: > date -d "1970-01-01 UTC 1139229934 seconds" > > > perl -e 'print scalar localtime '$DATE',"\n"' > > where $DATE is the the date you want to convert. > > Also good to know. Thanks.
On Debian unstable, I just found you can do: % date -d @1139229934 Mon Feb 6 13:45:34 CET 2006 (but it does not work on sarge) Anyway I will add it to the FAQ. Thanks for the info. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
