[plug] [REMINDER] Unix Epoch: 1 billion seconds breakfast function.

James Bromberger james at rcpt.to
Sun Sep 2 23:37:02 WST 2001


On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:36:26PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Along similar lines, is there a program that takes a date as the number of
> seconds since epoch and converts it into a human-readable date, that runs
> from the command line? I've written a small program that does this, but is
> there anything that's standard with Linux that'll be on any machine I walk
> up to?

Who about:

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(999877665) . "\n"'



 ;)

   James

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