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# 1  
Old 11-23-2010
unixtime to formatted date time
Hi,

I need to take the unix time and format it to a date/time string like this

yyyymmdd,hhmmss

I'm wrting in shell but have tried calling perl, but all the perl options I found on here puts output to Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 format.

Any help?

Cheers
Neil
# 2  
Old 11-23-2010
Code:
date '+%Y%m%d,%H%M%S'

Code:
# date '+%Y%m%d,%H%M%S'
20101123,175038
# date '+%Y.%m.%d-%H:%M:%S'
2010.11.23-17:50:42
# a=`date '+%Y%m%d,%H%M%S'`                <------ or  a=$(date '+%Y%m%d,%H%M%S')
# echo $a
20101123,175117
#

# 3  
Old 11-23-2010
Sorry,

I think I should have been a little unclear.

I need to take a unixtime and make the conversion output different to standard

example output from perl gives this
Code:
perl -le 'print scalar gmtime(1285659552)'
Tue Sep 28 07:39:12 2010

But I need to format the output so its yyyymmdd,hhmmss (20100928,073912).


Cheers,
Neil
Last edited by Scott; 11-23-2010 at 01:25 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 4  
Old 11-23-2010
If you have gnudate this will work:

Code:
$ date --date @1285659552 '+%Y%m%d,%H%M%S'
20100928,173912

In perl:

Code:
use POSIX qw(strftime);
print strftime("%Y%m%d,%H%M%S", gmtime(1285659552));

Last edited by Chubler_XL; 11-23-2010 at 05:36 PM..
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# 5  
Old 11-24-2010
That is great...perl option works fine.

The date through an error as it didn't recognise the --date option.


Thanks.
Neil
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