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Can someone help me with a Unix or perl script to convert the unix timestamps to human readable format?


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what exactly you are looking for.Please elaborate!!!
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Say I am having a timestamp 1140444334642 which is an epoch. I want this to be converted to something like "02/20/2006 19:35:34"
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Say I am having a timestamp 1140444334642 which is an epoch. I want this to be converted to something like "02/20/2006 19:35:34"
Woh ! That timestamp 1140444334642 actually made GNU date go back in time. Way before 1970. It went to 1906 ! I guess it must be some overflow, unless your epoch is different from a UNIX epoch.

What machine are you on ? From dictionary.com,
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Under most Unix versions the epoch is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT;
under VMS, it's 1858-11-17 00:00:00 (the base date of the US
Naval Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's
1904-01-01 00:00:00.
Anyway, if you have GNU date, then the answer to your question is

Code:
$ date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 1140444334642 seconds' +"%Y-%m-%d %T"
1906-02-01 03:38:26
I guess perl would have an in built functionality to do the same thing.
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