topic Epoch Time in Operating System - HP-UX

Epoch Time

Greg Stark_1 — Fri, 18 May 2001 16:14:05 GMT

Does anyone know of a Unix command that will return the current epoch time. I looked at date, but I don't see that it is an option for epoch.

Thanks in advance,
Greg

Re: Epoch Time

Vincenzo Restuccia — Fri, 18 May 2001 16:17:57 GMT

See time(1), date(1) , gettimeofday(2) , stime(2) , ctime(3C) , strftime(3C) .

Re: Epoch Time

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 18 May 2001 16:20:12 GMT

Hi Greg,

Probably the easist method is to create a
very small perl script e.g. time.pl.

Nothing more than
printf("%d\n",time());

then your shell script can do this
SECONDS=`perl time.pl`

That's it, Clay