[CentOS] convert standard time to unix time bash

2009-06-18 Thread Tony Asnicar
:) How?? I know that I could convert unix time to standard time like: date -d @1234567890 but how can I convert standard time to unix time? :D thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] convert standard time to unix time bash

2009-06-18 Thread nate
Tony Asnicar wrote: :) How?? I know that I could convert unix time to standard time like: date -d @1234567890 but how can I convert standard time to unix time? :D You want to convert the current time into the # of seconds elapsed since 1970 ? date +%s or date --date=some other date +%s

Re: [CentOS] convert standard time to unix time bash

2009-06-18 Thread Tony Asnicar
Thank you!! The answer waas: date --date=2009-06-18 18:57 +%s thanks :) On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Tony Asnicar asnica...@gmail.com wrote: :) How?? I know that I could convert unix time to standard time like: date -d @1234567890 but how can I convert standard time to unix time? :D

Re: [CentOS] convert standard time to unix time bash

2009-06-18 Thread Les Mikesell
Tony Asnicar wrote: Thank you!! The answer waas: date --date=2009-06-18 18:57 +%s thanks :) The things that --date will accept aren't very well documented in the man page but you can throw things like 'yesterday' or next-week or 2 months ago at it too. And you can omit it and just