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To: Ray Cummins <rcummins@burlco.lib.nj.us>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com>
Subject: Re: time to seconds-since-epoch?
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At 10:07 AM 2/4/97 -0500, Ray Cummins wrote:
>
>     Does anyone have a little program for FreeBSD that shows the current
>time in seconds from the epoch?

  /bin/date +%s

will return that info from the shell.

  #! /usr/bin/perl
  $epoch = $^T;    # sets $epoch to a likewise value - see man perlvar
                   # for details.  Note this is the time of the start of
                   # the script, not the current time.


With C,  "man 3 time" for details.


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