On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:43AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: > I think I'm suffering from OldTimers Disease ;-) > > I often have cause to use "date -r " to show me what the date stamp is > in human terms. > It is usually in spamd or on some documents I get that are time stamped > using the seconds since the epoc. > > Now I have a need to generate some timestamps of my own and, whilst I'm > sure I've done it in the past, I cannot remember it now. > > Cluebat? >
date +%s --date="January 01, 1970 00:00 GMT"

