02-27-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Don Cragun
The date +%T output gives you hours, minutes, and seconds (on a 24 hour clock) since midnight in the current timezone. The desired date +%s (which is not available on many UNIX systems, including AIX) gives you seconds since the Epoch (midnight at the start of January 1, 1970 UCT).
I am well aware of the difference between epoch time and seconds since midnight. I was (see post #1) - and perhaps erroneously so - convinced that thread-o/p was looking for the seconds since midnight ("time in seconds"), not the epoch (from which the seconds since midnight can be derived too, with some effort). So i offered this as a perceived shortcut.
date +'%s' is, btw., available on (a recent) AIX, but probably not on AIX 4.3.2 (which, IIRC, should be around 1997 or 1998).
bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 02-27-2017 at 01:28 PM..
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