Hi Chris, On Wed, Jun 05, 15:04, Chris Lamb wrote > > Indeed: FreeBSD-12's date(1) has > > > > -r seconds > > Print the date and time represented by seconds, where seconds is > > the number of seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, > > 1970; see time(3)), and can be specified in decimal, octal, or > > hex. > > > > and NetBSD-8 also has -r which expects a "seconds" argument. > > > > I guess this is not relevant to the case at hand since all Debian > > flavours use GNU userland, so we can rely GNU date(1). > > I provided it for completeness only and in case it was suitable for > upstream. If that is not relevant, please ignore. Thanks.
I went for the simple command and pushed out the commit. Thanks Andre -- Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Max-Planck-Ring 5, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Phone: (+49) 7071 601 829 http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/
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