[ale] time conversion

Fletch fletch at phydeaux.org
Wed May 7 21:12:06 EDT 2003


>>>>> "David" == David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> writes:

    David> Is there a standard linux tool for converting times that
    David> are in "32-bit seconds since Start of Epoch" form to a more
    David> human understandable team?  I know I can write one, fairly
    David> easily in Perl.

FreeBSD's date has an `-r' option, but I don't see an equivalent on my
RedHat box for GNU date.  At any rate it's trivial perl.


epoch2date () { perl -le 'print scalar localtime shift' $1 }


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