Convert unix timestamp to date

Posted September 13th, 2008 by Hans-Henry Jakobsen & filed under Linux, Scripting.

# date -d @1221256800 "+%Y-%m-%d %T"
2008-09-13 00:00:00

Convert a date (YYYYMMDD) to unix timestamp

# date -d "20080913" +%s
1221256800