How to translate a date

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xerxesdebian · #1 Post by **xerxesdebian** » 2006-05-26 22:20

Is it possible by console command to translate a number given as number (eg:1148581788) human redable format eg: Sat May 27 01:13:23 EEST 2006

Or should I write a program as I did for windows ? (As Im newbie in Linux C will kill me)

Anybody can help me ?

Grifter · #2 Post by **Grifter** » 2006-05-27 14:34

if you run the command uptime, i think it extrapolates it from the output of /proc/uptime (cat /proc/uptime), you could download the source for the procps package and go thru the source of the uptime command for inspiration if you want to make your own (:

ajdlinux · #3 Post by **ajdlinux** » 2006-05-27 21:53

You can do it in Perl AFAIK, but then again noone wants to program in Perl

lacek · #4 Post by **lacek** » 2006-05-28 16:04

Of course everyone loves perl... :-D

You can do it like this:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use POSIX qw(strftime);

$time="";
$format="%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S";

if ($ARGV[1]) {
        $format="$ARGV[1]";
}

if ($ARGV[0]) {
        $time=$ARGV[0];
}

print strftime "$format\n", localtime $time;

This code will print the given time in the given format. If you save it as a script, the first argument of it is the time in seconds, and the second is the format.