so i have to perform a certain task at set times. for instance, i need to run a job at 12:30am every night, and other jobs, i only need to have them run on saturdays.

how do i manipulate the date command to give me the epoch equivalence of what 12:30am would be every day?

im looking for a simple command that can just output to me what the epoch time would be.

something along the lines of:

Code:

WhatTime=12:30am,daily
date -d@${WhatTime}

Code:

WhatTimeDay=12:00am,Saturday
date -d@${WhatTimeDay}

The goal here is to submit the epoch time produced by the above command to a program and the program will know to run the job at the time specified, whether it be daily or on specific days.

This is to run on a Linux or SunOS box.

please advise.