Date and timestamp conversion

[Adam Gibson]

Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 13:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Back again:
>> $ TIMESTAMP=1145448136
>> $ awk 'BEGIN { print strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", '$TIMESTAMP') 
>> }' < /dev/null
>> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:02:16 +0100
> 
> Here's my shorthand for this:
> 
> $ perl -e "print scalar localtime $TIMESTAMP"
> 

Or by just using date for both directions:

[static at localhost ~]$ date -d "@1145448136"
Wed Apr 19 08:02:16 EDT 2006
[static at localhost ~]$ date -d "Wed Apr 19 08:02:16 EDT 2006" "+%s"
1145448136



> Cheers
> Steffen
> 
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