Hi,

i need to convert below date/time format into epoch time

YYYY-m-d H:M

below the example:

a=`date +"%F %H:%M"`
echo $a
Convert $a to epoch time
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lets take an example
if $a=1.03

here i want the epoch time of hour and mins only.
so the epoch time should be of 1 hour 3mins.

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help me in this

i can use
b=`date '+%s'`
echo $b
but it will give me the time of 1.03.10,lets for example. i want seconds of 1.03 and not 1.03.10

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