Date and timestamp conversion

[Dan Track]

On 4/19/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Dan Track wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Does anyone know how to convert between the `date -s` output to
> > timestamp and vice versa. Also does anyone know how to get the
> > timestamp for a date period in the past or future?
>
> I don't really understand the question.
>
> Please give an example of the two formats you want to convert between.
>
> Paul.
>
Hi Paul
I'd like to convert
Wed Apr 19 13:02:16 BST 2006 --> timestamp
or
timestamp --> Wed Apr 19 13:02:16 BST 2006

How would I do the above?

Is there a simple script for this?

thanks
Dan