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Old 03-16-2008
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I was taking a look at those links and I saw that you could pass in a parameter such as the following:

date -d "2008-03-15 11:40" --date="5 minutes ago" +%F==%I:%M

Though the output was:

2008-03-15==09:30

I was expecting to get back 11:35 for the time, is there something I'm missing to take a date format and subtract 5minutes from that time and convert it to epoch time to compare with other epoch values?