Re: Decode unixtime

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:46:07AM EST, Teemu Likonen wrote:
On 2010-01-15 05:20 (UTC), Chris Jackson wrote:

It's not well documented, but: date -d, with an '@' before it:

chrisj@hercule$ date -d '@1257624539'
Sat Nov 7 20:08:59 GMT 2009

It's documented quite well in info pages, though:

$ info coreutils "date inv"
$ info coreutils seconds

(Or from Emacs.)

But I guess nobody - except Emacs users - read info pages these days,

And they don't read the man pages either, since the date manual states:

| The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info
| and date programs are properly installed at your site, the command
|
| info date
|
| should give you access to the complete manual.

I don't use Emacs, but for anything longer than a couple of screenfuls,
I find the Texinfo manuals have the edge over the man pages, although it
takes a while to get used to finding your way around.

Besides, I hear that due to licensing restrictions, some of the info
pages are not available from the debian repos. As a result, if you don't
mind tainting your debian system, you need to download them from the GNU
website and install them manually, which is not always straightforward.

I don't know if it still ships with more current versions of debian but
there is a nice replacement to the 'info' browser named 'pinfo' that
provides color highlighting and more user-friendly navigation via hjkl +
<Enter>... hmm, more user-friendly for vimmers, that is.. behaves a bit
more like a text-mode web browser.

so in practice it's not very well documented. :-)

Well, that's why we have mailing lists.. so we can document the doc :-)

CJ


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