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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Converting time formats
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:31:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE13174.7020200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105281850.56873.wonko@wonkology.org>

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale asks:
>
>    
>> I asked this once before but I can't find it.  I have a log file that
>> has time stamps that look like this:
>>
>> lastrun = 1306574899
>>
>> What do I use to get the human time for that?  I thought it was the date
>> command but I couldn't find it in the man page.  I tried google but I
>> can't recall what that time stamp is called either so not sure what to
>> search for.
>>      
> It's seconds since 1970. You can convert them like this:
> date -d @1306574899
>
> 	Wonko
>
>    

So it was the -d option.  I thought that was it but I missed the @ 
sign.  I added that to my list of common commands so I won't forget.

Thanks much for both replies.

Dale

:-)  :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-28 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-28 16:37 [gentoo-user] Converting time formats Dale
2011-05-28 16:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-05-28 16:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2011-05-28 17:31   ` Dale [this message]
2011-05-28 17:30 ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-29  0:48 ` William Kenworthy
2011-05-29  2:28   ` Dale
2011-05-29 10:10     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-29 13:55       ` Dale
2011-05-29 21:08         ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-29 21:42           ` Dale
2011-05-29 22:18     ` Henry Gebhardt
2011-05-30  9:16       ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-29 10:08   ` Mick
2011-05-29 13:07     ` William Kenworthy
2011-05-29 13:47   ` Peter Humphrey

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