Musings

GNU coreutils 5.3.0 added the very useful @ operator to the date command to enable users to easily convert seconds since the Unix Epoch into date strings. $ date Mon Mar 17 21:31:15 EDT 2014 $ date +%s 1395106277 $ date -d’@1395106277′ Mon Mar 17 21:31:17 EDT 2014 $ date –date=’@1395106277′ Mon Mar 17 21:31:17 EDT 2014 $