Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

utime { date -d @$1; }

More recent versions of the date command finally have the ability to decode the unix epoch time into a human readable date. This function makes it simple to utilize this feature quickly.

Sample Output

$ utime 1000000000
Sat Sep  8 21:46:40 EDT 2001

By: deltaray

2010-05-12 12:21:15

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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

A shell function using perl to easily convert Unix-time to text. Put in in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent. Tested on Linux / Solaris Bourne, bash and zsh. using perl 5.6 and higher. (Does not require GNU date like some other commands) Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
$ utime 1234567890
Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 2009
```
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utime(){ perl -e "print localtime($1).\"\n\"";}

MoHaG · 2009-11-06 12:58:10 3
Easily decode unix-time (funtion)
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utime(){ date -d "1970-01-01 GMT $1 seconds"; }

4Aiur · 2010-05-14 07:49:49 5
Easily decode unix-time (funtion)
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utime(){ python -c "import time; print(time.strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y', time.localtime($1)))"; }

4Aiur · 2010-05-14 08:00:44 4
Easily decode unix-time (funtion)
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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utime(){ awk -v d=$1 'BEGIN{print strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y", d)}'; }

4Aiur · 2010-05-14 08:00:04 4

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