:) How?? I know that I could convert unix time to standard time like: date -d "@1234567890" but how can I convert standard time to unix time? :D thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090618/3eb12736/attachment-0001.html>
Tony Asnicar wrote:> :) How?? > > I know that I could convert unix time to standard time like: date -d > "@1234567890" > > but how can I convert standard time to unix time? :DYou want to convert the current time into the # of seconds elapsed since 1970 ? date +%s or date --date="some other date" +%s nate
Thank you!! The answer waas: date --date="2009-06-18 18:57" +%s thanks :) On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Tony Asnicar <asnicar81 at gmail.com> wrote:> :) How?? > > I know that I could convert unix time to standard time like: date -d > "@1234567890" > > but how can I convert standard time to unix time? :D > > thanks >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090618/07d899fb/attachment-0001.html>
Tony Asnicar wrote:> Thank you!! > > The answer waas: > > date --date="2009-06-18 18:57" +%s > > thanks :)The things that --date will accept aren't very well documented in the man page but you can throw things like 'yesterday' or "next-week" or "2 months ago" at it too. And you can omit it and just use the +%s to get the current unix time. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com