Comments on: The Date Command and Seconds Since 1970-01-01

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:52:08 +0000

Here’s a command to try:

date -d “2009-02-13 23:31:30 UTC” +%s

Not that far away either.

By: Bill Hay

Bill Hay — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:46:44 +0000

I think it is a trifle odd to think of the seconds output as being in a time zone at all. It is the
number of seconds since a particular point in time (the Unix epoch). When that point in time is represented in UTC that representation is 1970-01-01 00:00:00.

By: etbe

etbe — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:35:51 +0000

Ruben: Unfortunately your comment was munged in exactly the same way as my post. I believe that I have now corrected the error you referr to.

Vaclav: Thanks for that! It’s a pity it’s not in the man page.

By: Vaclav Ovsik

Vaclav Ovsik — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:28:01 +0000

Hi,
take a look into info pages for GNU date

date -d @1212642879
date -d “@$(date +%s)”

Regards
–
Zito

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BIND Stats | etbe — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:22:50 +0000

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By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:04:04 +0000

remember to use “” instead of “” when typing the command.