Robert F. Chapman wrote: > Depending on the version of date you have installed, you can use the > following syntax. > >> date --date=@1187249220 > > Thu Aug 16 00:27:00 PDT 2007 > > Im not sure when the feature was added, but I remember seeing it used > this way quite some time ago. Along with that.... > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 00:21 -0700, bruce wrote: >> fair enough.... >> >> #/bin/bash >> >> #gets the epoch secs >> time=$(date -%s) Should read: time=$(date +%s) >> #convert back >> tstart=$(date -d $start +%H:%M:%S:)" Can be.... tstart=$(date --date=@$time +%H:%M:%S:) The script doesn't define "$start" to begin with. (What that a pun?) >> the above was from a website, although i've yet to get it to work... I could understand that. Looks like the person posting never did read the man page for "date". -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
