Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:41:06 -0800 

* 2023-12-17 10:58:28+0000, Andy Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 10:12:11AM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>> you get seconds in dt00 and dt02 and then the difference. You can't
>> go: $(( dt02 - dt00 )) because bash Arithmetic is 10-based.
>
> Why don't you just get the time as epoch time e.g. "date +%s" and
> then you can subtract one from the other¹.

Also, Bash has variable EPOCHSECONDS which expands to the current Unix
epoch time.

    $ echo $EPOCHSECONDS; sleep 5; echo $EPOCHSECONDS 
    1702812641
    1702812646

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