In message <[email protected]>, David
Kirkby writes:
>I've asked this on comp.unix.shell, but never got a 100% satsifactory
>answer. Perhaps someone here might know.
>
>Does anyone know how to get the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 on a
>Unix system using the shell - not compiling C code. I can't assume the
>computer has perl, python or a C compiler.
On FreeBSD you can use the strftime facility in date(1):
$ date +%s
1255442977
Poul-Henning
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