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On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:45:25AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote: > [ On Monday, October 22, 2001 at 18:18:41 (-0500), Chris Adams wrote: ] > > On Red Hat Linux 7.1: > > $ date -r 1003723200 > > date: 1003723200: No such file or directory > > The first two were kinda sad examples of the state of commercial Unix > (unfortunately even SuSv2 lacks this now ancient feature!), but this sounds like a BSD-ism (for purists?); NetBSD 1.5.2 has the "-r" option, and it works as expected. Linux 6.2 and up switched to sh-utils-2.0, which uses "-r" as "refer to date of file", so there's now a clear divergence. > last one (i.e. GNU date) surprises the heck out of me -- especially > since there's not even an equivalent option with a different name.... yes, especially, as you can go forward: bash$ date "+%s" 1003819816 however, a quick reading of the doc indicated that one can do: bash$ date --date="01/01/1970 UTC 1003819816 seconds" Tue Oct 23 02:50:16 EDT 2001 unfortunately, the timezone (EDT here) doesn't work right, except on a old slackware box (which is probably a bug, either way). -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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