On Wed, Dec 5, 2012, at 09:49 PM, Rod Whitworth wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:55:37 +1300, [email protected] wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:43AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: > >> I think I'm suffering from OldTimers Disease ;-) > >> > >> I often have cause to use "date -r " to show me what the date stamp is > >> in human terms. > >> It is usually in spamd or on some documents I get that are time stamped > >> using the seconds since the epoc. > >> > >> Now I have a need to generate some timestamps of my own and, whilst I'm > >> sure I've done it in the past, I cannot remember it now. > >> > >> Cluebat? > >> > > > >date +%s --date="January 01, 1970 00:00 GMT" > > > > The "--" in there says you are running linux... this is an OpenBSD > list.
When will people learn that GNU's not UNIX
