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

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> Matus UHLAR - fantomas <address@hidden> writes:
> > 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?

On 25.07 20:13, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> $ date -d @1122315156

Oh thank you and sorry for bugging. now I see it was finally added in
coreutils 5.3, even if the docs aren't yet available on the web.
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