Unix timestamp to readable date

Rhije · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2009

How would I convert a unix timestamp such as "1232144092" to a readable date such as "1/16/2009 10:14:28 PM" ?

I thought I could use date, but I don't think so now.. Any help would be great!!

reborg · #2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2009

Code:

echo <unix time> | perl -e 'print localtime(<>) . "\n";'

Rhije · #3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2009

haha, well I meant any *nix command that could do it, sorry about that.

I suppose its not that I need a *nix command that does it, perl works just as well. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a command

Thanks reborg!

borderblaster · #4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009

Try this from the bash shell

date -d @1232144092

Rhije · #5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2009

borderblaster - that is awesome!!! Thank you so much!

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