UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Can someone help me with a Unix or perl script to convert the unix timestamps to human readable format?


Any help will be highly appreciated...

what exactly you are looking for.Please elaborate!!!

Say I am having a timestamp 1140444334642 which is an epoch. I want this to be converted to something like "02/20/2006 19:35:34"

Woh ! That timestamp 1140444334642 actually made GNU date go back in time. Way before 1970. It went to 1906 ! I guess it must be some overflow, unless your epoch is different from a UNIX epoch.

What machine are you on ? From dictionary.com,

Code:

Under most Unix versions the epoch is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT;
under VMS, it's 1858-11-17 00:00:00 (the base date of the US
Naval Observatory's ephemerides); on a Macintosh, it's
1904-01-01 00:00:00.

Anyway, if you have GNU date, then the answer to your question is

Code:

$ date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 1140444334642 seconds' +"%Y-%m-%d %T"
1906-02-01 03:38:26

I guess perl would have an in built functionality to do the same thing.