2009/10/13 Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>:
> In message <286f7bad0910130703v6680affbx95905a4400000...@mail.gmail.com>, 
> 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
But it does not work on Solaris or HP-UX

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