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Re: antidote to date +%s not mentioned
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Dan Jacobson |
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Re: antidote to date +%s not mentioned |
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Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:39:45 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) |
Jim> If you still think something like the above would help,
Jim> then please send a patch using examples like these that
Jim> limit output to the part (time) that changes:
Jim> date +%T
Jim> date -d "1970-01-01 `date +%s` seconds" +%T
Jim> date -d "1970-01-01 UTC `date +%s` seconds" +%T
Go for it. However I wouldn't limit it with %T, so beginners can see
that there's nothing else going on behind the scenes.