bash script to convert date seconds back to date format..

[Ed Greshko]

Robert F. Chapman wrote:
> Depending on the version of date you have installed, you can use the
> following syntax.
> 
>> date --date=@1187249220
> 
> Thu Aug 16 00:27:00 PDT 2007
> 
> Im not sure when the feature was added, but I remember seeing it used
> this way quite some time ago.

Along with that....

> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 00:21 -0700, bruce wrote:
>> fair enough....
>>
>> #/bin/bash
>>
>> #gets the epoch secs
>> time=$(date -%s)

Should read:

time=$(date +%s)

>> #convert back
>> tstart=$(date -d $start +%H:%M:%S:)"

Can be....

tstart=$(date --date=@$time +%H:%M:%S:)

The script doesn't define "$start" to begin with.  (What that a pun?)

>> the above was from a website, although i've yet to get it to work...

I could understand that.  Looks like the person posting never did read the
man page for "date".