Re: Re: Decode unixtime

[Clive Standbridge <Clive.Standbridge@myriadgroup.com>]

> > I suggest that you change the way you get the numbers so that they
> > are
> > both human readable and parsable by simple code. I like date
> > +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S
> 
> +%F_%T is what I use when spaces aren't desirable in dates. See my
> quoting line for a slightly modified example of it. From my
> experience,
> it's equally able to be parsed by software, and (IMO) easier to parse
> by
> wetware.

How about
    date -I
    date -Iseconds

Sortable, readable, parseable and standard to boot.

> [#include usDateFormatRant.txt]

Hear hear.