Tony Asnicar wrote:
Thank you!! The answer waas: date --date="2009-06-18 18:57" +%s thanks :)
The things that --date will accept aren't very well documented in the man page but you can throw things like 'yesterday' or "next-week" or "2 months ago" at it too. And you can omit it and just use the +%s to get the current unix time.
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