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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com