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# 8  
Old 04-06-2008
If your date version support these options you can try this:

Code:
date +%s -d "01/01/2000 00:00:00"

Regards
# 9  
Old 04-06-2008
Bug

HTML Code:
date +%s, doesn't work, I tried with %S (not %s),  date +%S , this gives the seconds but not epoch 

Do we have any other options with perl or nawk.
Btw, I am on Solarid
# 10  
Old 04-06-2008
Not too pretty, but pretty quick...

Code:
$ touch -t 200001010000.00 somefile
$ perl -e 'printf "%d\n", ((stat(shift))[9]); ' somefile
946702800
$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(shift),"\n"' 946702800
Sat Jan  1 00:00:00 2000
$

1) touch a file to get the desired timestamp
2) use perl to display that timestamp in seconds
3) to verify, I use perl to convert unix internal time to human readable
# 11  
Old 04-06-2008
Code:
/usr/bin/truss /usr/bin/date 2>&1 | /usr/bin/awk '/^time/ {print $NF}'

# 12  
Old 04-06-2008
vgersh99 - that is a very cool solution!

Code:
perl -e 'use Time::Local; print timelocal("00","00","00","01","01","2000"),"\n";'


Last edited by fpmurphy; 04-06-2008 at 07:39 PM..
# 13  
Old 04-08-2008
The Solaris dtrace facility can also display the seconds since Epoch.

Code:
#!/usr/sbin/dtrace -qs

tick-1sec
{
        printf("%d seconds since the epoch\n", `time);
        exit(0)
}

# 14  
Old 05-12-2009
Example , To translate Tuesday may 12 2009 15:47:04 to epoch seconds . in PST zone

TZ=PST date -d "20090512 15:47:04" +%s
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