Re: Can GNU date do this?

[email protected] (Bob Proulx) Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:13:19 -0700

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Kenneth Stailey <[email protected]> [2003-01-02 11:10:11 -0800]:
> FreeBSD's date can turn seconds since the epoch back into a human-readable
> format:
> 
> $ date -j -f "%s" 1041286200
> Mon Dec 30 17:10:00 EST 2002

Try this with GNU date.  I will set the TZ to match yours.

  export TZ=EST
  date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 1041286200 sec'
  Mon Dec 30 17:10:00 EST 2002

> Does GNU have strptime(3)?

The GNU libc does have strptime, yes.

Bob