Re: Is there a POSIX compliant way of turning a "HH:MM:SS" formatted string to seconds? ...
On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 11:39:02PM +0200, lbrtchx@tutamail.com wrote:
> Video durations are formatted in youtube's .info.json files as "HH:MM:SS"; so, I went monkey and did the conversion myself, but I got two errors which I can't make sense of whatsoever with only two values:
_HHMMSS="19:09"
seconds=$( date --date="1 january 1970 $_HHMMSS" "+%s" )
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