Philip Rowlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I might be misunderstanding the problem, but it seems easy enough to do
> this calling date only once:
>
> $ date +%T | awk -F: '{ print $1 * 3600 + $2 * 60 + $3 }'
> 67652
This will fail during the day after a DST transition.
Andreas.
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