On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:31:19 +0000, Clive Standbridge wrote: > How about > date -I > date -Iseconds > > Sortable, readable, parseable and standard to boot. Using Lenny? -- the '-I' will be gone soon. It is not even in Squeeze's man page now. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/