Re: Comparing time in Linux

In article <1135308497.668323.157630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Binary <binary.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:Hi,
:
:Any command or script to compare the date/time in Linux? I want to know
:a date is later or ealier than another. Such as 2005/10/10 >
:2004/11/21?

If you're doing this from the command line, you can compare the results
from `date -d "some date string" +%s` for any date format that 'date'
can recognize. In the year 2038 that signed 32-bit seconds counter
overflows, though.

--
Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
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