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Subject: freebsd version of 'data' for getting epoch time ... ?
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If I have a arbitrary date/time and I want to convert
that to epoch time, I do this with GNU date:

date --date='1970-01-01 00:02:00 +0000' +%s

Easy.

Can someone tell me what the syntax is for FreeBSD
date command ?


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