Re: adding option to date to specify date in unix format (seconds since epoch)

[Andreas Schwab]

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've seen this request ocasionally appear in archive of this list (and
> sh-utils before). The FreeBSD's date has such option:
>
> -r seconds
>         Print the date and time represented by seconds, where seconds is
>         the number of seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1,
>         1970; see time(3)), and can be specified in decimal, octal, or
>         hex.
>
> Wouldn't you mind adding such option (although not -r, because it's already
> used) to GNU date too?

$ date -d @1122315156

Andreas.

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