[CentOS] convert standard time to unix time bash

nate centos at linuxpowered.net
Thu Jun 18 18:50:18 UTC 2009


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? :D

You want to convert the current time into the # of seconds elapsed
since 1970 ?

date +%s

or date --date="some other date" +%s

nate




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