Bash - converting unix timestamp to date
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- Bash
- Linux
Under Debian or RHEL4 and later, it can be as simple as :
$ date -d @1193144433 Tue Oct 23 15:00:33 CEST 2007
But that command doesn’t work under Red Hat EL 3, so you should use the following :
$ date --date "1970-01-01 1193144433 sec" "+%Y-%m-%d %T" 2007-10-23 15:00:33
The output is different though You can always use the previous command under Ubuntu/RHEL4+ or the simpler :
$ date -d @1193144433 "+%Y-%m-%d %T" 2007-10-23 15:00:33
Converting a date to unix timestamp :
$ date -d "2007-10-23 15:00:23" "+%s" 1193144423
Add "--utc" to the commands if you want to get the UTC time.