Convert unix timestamp to date

date -d @1234567890

By: computermacgyver

2013-05-28 12:17:00

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Convert unix timestamp to date

The "-d" option for gnu's "date" command can calculate positive or negative offset from any time, including "now". You can even specify a source timezone (the output timezone can be set with the TZ environment variable). Useful! Fun! Not very well documented! Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ date -ud "1970-01-01 + 1234567890 seconds"
Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009

# and back again
$ date -ud "Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009" +%s
1234567890
```
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date -ud "1970-01-01 + 1234567890 seconds"

zude · 2009-10-07 04:35:40 8
Convert unix timestamp to date

This works out of the box in Mac Os X Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Tue Jul  7 01:04:42 BRT 2015
```
0

date -r 1436241882

filipekiss · 2015-07-07 03:56:39 9
Convert unix timestamp to date
This is sample output - yours may be different.
-3

echo $EPOCH|awk '{print strftime("%c",$1)}'

EBAH · 2011-01-19 15:12:51 9

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