a simple way of converting a date in seconds to normal date

travian · #1 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006

Hi all!

I'm working on a HPUX system, and I was wondering if there is a simple way to convert a date from seconds (since 1970) to a normal date.

Thanks

Perderabo · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006

Pretty easy with perl:
$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(shift),"\n"' 1164876000
Thu Nov 30 03:40:00 2006

Even if you have not installed a recent version of perl, HP-UX should have an old version in /usr/contrib/bin that is good enough for this.

travian · #3 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Thanks!

It works just fine

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