James Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> HOURS=`expr $CONNECT_TIME \/ 3600`
> CONNECT_TIME=`expr $CONNECT_TIME - \( $HOURS \* 3600 \)`
> MINUTES=`expr $CONNECT_TIME \/ 60`
> CONNECT_TIME=`expr $CONNECT_TIME = \( $MINUTES \* 60 \)`
> SECONDS=$CONNECT_TIME
> Erk, ugly.
You could use the POSIX arithmetic substitution, i.e.,
CONNECT_TIME=$(($MINUTES * 60))
> I looked at the manpage for date, with the intention of doing something
> like date -d 00000000.$CONNECT_TIME +%r but it didn't like the date that
> way, i guess it needs the seconds between 0 and 59. Also, there was
> nothing about converting unix time to normal time. I'm convinced there
> must be a tool to do this.
I used to use bc to do this until I RTFM'ed:
date -d "1970-01-01 utc 968233475 sec"
Could make an alias for this if you're going to type this frequently.
Although at the moment it's off by an hour, looks like a daylight saving
bug in date. Time to run bug...
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