Commands tagged date

date -ud @1320198157

uses the -u switch for UTC

Another way could be

The same with colors

This command will show the current GMT time using HTTP. This might be useful if you just want to know what's the current human-readable and accurate-enough time, without changing the system time, using a simple command that would work regardless of the availability of NTP.

Note: To get a quicker and more accurate response, replace google.com with your local NTP server.

Also can be used as an alternative to the "htpdate" program:

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/668/set-your-computers-clock-using-http-and-htp-http-time-protocol-when-ntpsntp-is-not-available

Line can be modified as needed. This considers weekdays to be Mon-Fri. If run any working day it'll provide a parameters for the next working day for "at".

"beep" provided as a sample command.

This can be modified easily to include wait time. If you need something to run "D" days after today:

# D=4;if [ $(date +%u --date="${D} days") -lt 5 ];then AT="+${D} days";else AT="next monday";fi; echo "beep" | at noon ${AT}

Countdown clock - Counts down from $MIN minutes to zero.

I let the date command do the maths.

This version doesn't use seq.

Shows a simple clock in the console

-t param removes the watch header

Ctrl-c to exit

* Replace USERNAME with the desired svn username

* Replace the first YYYY-MM-DD with the date you want to get the log (this starts at the midnight event that starts this date)

* Replace the second YYYY-MM-DD with the date after you want to get the log (this will end the log scan on midnight of the previous day)

Example, if I want the log for December 10, 2010, I would put {2010-12-10}:{2010-12-11}

even shorter (infix) version.

"infix" version in bash (4.x+)

Remove -v to make it silent.

BTW: The OP forgot to use "cat" and "nmap" ;-) I had a good laugh though.

This backup function preserve the file suffix allowing zsh suffix aliases and desktop default actions to work with the backup file too.

1. you don't need to prepend the year with 20 - just use Y instead of y

2. you may want to make your function a bit more secure:

buf () { cp ${1?filename not specified}{,$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}; }

Like 7171, but fixed typo, uses fewer variables, and even more cryptic!

cryptic version

Lightweight alternative with case

displays current time in "binary clock" format

(loosely) inspired by: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/59e0/

"Decoding":

8421

.... - 1st hour digit: 0

*..* - 2nd hour digit: 9 (8+1)

.*.. - 1st minutes digit: 4

*..* - 2nd minutes digit: 9 (8+1)

Prompt-command version:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo "10 i 2 o $(date +"%H%M"|cut -b 1,2,3,4 --output-delimiter=" ") f"|dc|tac|xargs printf "%04d\n"|tr "01" ".*"'

Should be a bit more portable since echo -e/n and date's -Ins are not.

This is useful when watching a log file that does not contain timestamps itself.

If the file already has content when starting the command, the first lines will have the "wrong" timestamp when the command was started and not when the lines were originally written.

Increase the modification date for the files selected with the find command.

Saves all the "cut" hacks