Getting UNIX time from the shell

Jean-Pierre Radley jpr at dasys1.UUCP
Sat Jun 24 23:43:29 AEST 1989


In article <10800028 at bradley> vijay at bradley.UUCP writes:
>You do not need to write a C program to do that. A one liner
>shell command will do it for you (In C Shell or Bourne Shell).
>All you need is :
>   
>                  date | cut -f4,5 -d" "
>

I never use two processes where one will do.

	date +%T

gives me the time. (Oh well, so it doesn't give me my timezone, but
that's really an invariant, no?)
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Jean-Pierre Radley		CIS: 72160,1341		jpr at jpradley.UUCP



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