SECONDS(1) SECONDS(1)
NAME
seconds - convert human-readable date (and time) to seconds
since epoch
SYNOPSIS
seconds date ...
DESCRIPTION
Seconds prints the number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970 corre-
sponding to one or more human-readable dates. Each date must
be one argument; it will usually be necessary to enclose it
in quotes.
Seconds accepts a somewhat wider range of input than just
output from date(1). The main requirement is that the date
must be fully specified, with a day of month, month and year
in any order. The month must be an English name (or abbre-
viation), not a number, and the year must contain 4 digits.
Unambiguous time-zone names are understood (i.e., not `IST')
or time zones may be written as ±hhmm. Case is ignored.
EXAMPLES
Print the names of all files under `.' modified since the
start of 23 May 2011.
du -ta | awk '$1 >= '^`{seconds '23 may 2011'}^' {print $2}'
SEE ALSO
date(1), du(1), mtime(1), ctime(2)
BUGS
All-numeric dates, popular in the USA, are simply ambiguous,
more so if the year is truncated to 2 digits.
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