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.
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Les Mikesell
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