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Old 03-16-2008
Franklin52 Franklin52 is online now Forum Staff  
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It should be something like:


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

But what is the reason for using this format "+%F==%I:%M"?
You can get the epoch time of 5 minutes ago with:


Code:
date --date "2008-03-15 11:40 5 min ago" +%s

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