CONVDATE

NAME

convdate - convert time/date strings and numbers

SYNOPSIS

convdate [ -c ] [ -n ] [ -s ] arg...

DESCRIPTION

Convdate translate the date/time strings specified as arguments on its command line, outputting the results one to a line.

OPTIONS

-c: If the ``-c'' flag is used, then each argument is taken to be a time_t and is output in ctime format.
-n: If the ``-n'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a time_t; see time(2).
-s: If the ``-s'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a string formatted by ctime(3). This is the default.

EXAMPLES

% convdate 'feb 10 10am'
Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991

% convdate 12pm 5/4/90
Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 1991
Fri May  4 00:00:00 1990

% convdate -n 'feb 10 10am' '12pm 5/4/90'
666198000
641880000

% convdate -c 666198000
Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991

HISTORY

Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>. This is revision 1.2, dated 1998/05/20.