Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...

[lbrtchx]

OK, it makes some more sense now. The range of digits in the octal system is 
from 0 to 7, so it would complain with "08" and "09" (but not with "10" which 
would then be "8" in octal), but why would command line utilities assume you 
are encoding numeric values as octal? Now I notice many people have stumble on 
the same problem. There should be a straight forward way to encode from 
"HH:MM:SS" to seconds. I doubt that the date utility would assume you are 
computing numbers as octal.