>> >> Which other platforms are we talking about here? >> >> https://www.perforce.com/downloads/helix >> >> From there, you can get Solaris10, HP-UX, AIX and various flavours of BSD. >> Solaris supports "date +%s". > > The question about "date +%s" portability arose with a suggestion to > employ it in git-filter-branch[1]. Apparently, the concern about > Solaris was raised in response to a Stack Overflow question[2] which > claimed that +%s was not supported by that OS. Unfortunately, however, > [2] did not indicate to which (older?) versions of Solaris that > shortcoming applied. If Solaris 10 does support +%s, and the Perforce > product is only available for Solaris 10, then perhaps concern about > +%s a non-issue(?). > > [1]: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/FEATURE-REQUEST-Filter-branch-extend-progress-with-a-simple-estimated-time-remaning-td7638200.html#a7638504 > [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2445198/get-seconds-since-epoch-in-any-posix-compliant-shell Rereading the man page more carefully, you're right, Solaris 10 doesn't do "%s". Using python to get the seconds should work though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html