[ILUG] Seconds to date?

[P at draigBrady.com]

John Gaughan wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Conor Daly wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:33:47PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
>>kevin lyda thought:
>>
>>>On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:23:10PM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
>>>
>>>>takes 2002/7/1 and outputs 1025481600
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone tell me what will do the inverse?
>>>
>>>just barely a perl one-liner:
>>>
>>>perl -e 'use POSIX strftime;print(strftime("%Y/%m/%d\n",localtime(1025481600)))'
>>
>>Thanks guys,  A nice selection to work with.  Unfortunatels FreeBSD's
>>"date -r" doesn't exist in GNU date!
> 
> You can do it with GNU date like this:
> date -d '1970-01-01 1025481600 sec' +%Y/%m/%d

<jamaican accent>
I'm 23,970,754 seconds late
</jamaican accent>

but there is a UTC missing above, it should be:

date --date='1970-01-01 UTC 1025481600 sec' "+%Y/%m/%d"

Pádraig