Jul 28 14:57 2017 GMT
How do I convert this date to the number of seconds, so I can compare it to the system date? If it is over 2 days old.
I have this code but it doesn't work. I'm getting an error message when I ran it. I think its because $dateFile is a text file and it doesn't know how to convert it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: I just noticed you have cut the minutes value out of the original date - I'm assuming this was a mistake and your cut command should probably have been cut -d ':' -f 2-4
If your system has GNU date you can use date -d STRING to display time described by STRING eg:
If you don't have GNU date you can use a perl program to achieve the same thing (most systems seem to have perl available).
save this a epoch.pl and chmod +x epoch.pl:
The you can call it like this
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function::ctime
function::ctime
FUNCTION:(3stap) Time utility functions FUNCTION:(3stap)NAME
function::ctime - Convert seconds since epoch into human readable date/time string
SYNOPSIS
ctime:string(epochsecs:long)
ARGUMENTS
epochsecs
Number of seconds since epoch (as returned by gettimeofday_s)
DESCRIPTION
Takes an argument of seconds since the epoch as returned by gettimeofday_s. Returns a string of the form
"Wed Jun 30 21:49:08 1993"
The string will always be exactly 24 characters. If the time would be unreasonable far in the past (before what can be represented with a
32 bit offset in seconds from the epoch) the returned string will be "a long, long time ago...". If the time would be unreasonable far in
the future the returned string will be "far far in the future..." (both these strings are also 24 characters wide).
Note that the epoch (zero) corresponds to
"Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970"
The earliest full date given by ctime, corresponding to epochsecs -2147483648 is "Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901". The latest full date given by
ctime, corresponding to epochsecs 2147483647 is "Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038".
The abbreviations for the days of the week are 'Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', and 'Sat'. The abbreviations for the months are
'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', and 'Dec'.
Note that the real C library ctime function puts a newline ('
') character at the end of the string that this function does not. Also note
that since the kernel has no concept of timezones, the returned time is always in GMT.
SystemTap Tapset Reference May 2013 FUNCTION:(3stap)