Could you help me with conversion unix system date to Epoch

[Marcin_9]

Hi,
As I know the system date in typical conversion is "friendly" readable like 17 jan 2005 17:50... for user. But in some case (like logs) there are epoch date converted. We would like to have easy way to put date as in data and have output in epoch conversion. Could you sugest solution?

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

Marcin,
a often asked question. Have look at:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=243829
The various solutions involve either perl,C or lengthy shell scripts.

If you want other solutions please search the newsgroups with "epoch" as the keyword.

Regards

[harry d brown jr]

in perl or c you can use strftime.

perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime);$timeis=723838390;$tim=strftime "%Y%m%d.%H%M%S",localtime(${timeis});printf("time is %s.\n", $tim);'

also see: http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2003/03/13/datetime.html

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