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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [SOLVED] Pull lines older than N weeks Post 302703995 by karstenjhilton on Thursday 20th of September 2012 05:44:26 PM
Old 09-20-2012
I am able to use the date -d. I have used it before. Here is a quick convert on command line.
Code:
admin@jxn-ux-bar01:~/scripts> date -d "12 Aug 2012" +%s
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Last edited by Franklin52; 09-25-2012 at 07:10 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thanks
 

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time-admin(1)							   User Commands						     time-admin(1)

NAME
time-admin - Basic configuration of system time, date, timezone and NTP client. SYNOPSIS
time-admin [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
time-admin enables the user to configure the default timezone and current date/time on the system. It also enables the user to turn on auto-synchronisation of this using NTP. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa- tion. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application. example% time-admin EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/time-admin Executable for time and date configuration. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/time Backup directory for files that are modified. /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/time Debug logs can be found under here. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Uncommitted | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. users-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), rtc(1M), ntpdate(1M), xntpd(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006. SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 time-admin(1)
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