Hi,

My version of HP-UX does not support "date +%s" to find the number of seconds elapsed since 01/01/1970.

It would be great if anyone can give some simpler ideas for achieving the same.

Thanks.

If 'date +%s' provides you the result you need, why search for an alternative ??

Sorry - curious to know why you'd seek an alternative. BTW - What OS are you using ??

See: HP-UX & need help with time

You could try installing GNU's date command. It has a %s option and some other really cool features that once you install you'll want to keep forever. To get it, install GNU's coreutils on a test server and then copy just the date command over. I usually rename it to gdate so that HP's date program is still intact.

I use HP-UX and it does not support "date +%s".

My basic requirement is that I need to find the difference (number of days) between two dates. My idea was to convert the dates to seconds. date +%s -d <date> gives the number of seconds elapsed since 01/01/1970 to the current date. Thus I can get both the dates in seconds & then find difference and then convert it back to days.

But the problem here that as I said earlier, HP-UX does not support date +%s. And I need this to be strictly in ksh and not in perl.

Any help on this will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.