Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...
On 12/18/23, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> Another problem in what you posted is that you sometimes run date
> in your local timezone (generally for the "now" times), but you
> append +00:00 as the timezone for those --date strings that you
> construct from several substrings. You need to use UT throughout.
What difference would that make when all I need is a time difference?
The way I understand such time format issues is that it needs to just
be the same in the two dates.
>> ANyway, my hack around it wasn't effortful at
>> all.
>
> I don't know whether you're referring to something already posted,
> or some new script written in the wake of what you've read here.
That silly hack which lousy bash script I posted within its test case
lbrtchx
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