Commands for interchange of date, time, and Unix timestamps in Linux Command lines

Commands for interchange of date, time, and Unix timestamps in Linux Command lines

At work, you often need to get the current Unix timestamp or convert the given timestamp to a date format that we can recognize, on the linux Command Line terminal, you can easily solve the problem by using several commands.

1. convert a date to a Unix Timestamp

(1) present the current time in Unix timestamp:

Date + % s

The output is as follows:

1361542433

(2) convert the specified date to the Unix timestamp:

Date-d '2017-2-22 '+ % s

The output is as follows:

1361542440

2. Convert Unix timestamp to datetime

(1) do not specify the date and time format:

Date-d @ 1361542596

The output is as follows:

Fri Feb 22 12 22:16:36 CST 2013

(2) Date Format Conversion:

Date-d @ 1361542596 + "% Y-% m-% d % H: % M: % S"

The output is as follows:

2013-02-22 22:16:36