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Alternative date command option in AIX

I want to convert specific date to timestamp in AIX. Following command is working in GNU/LINUX flavor. Can someone please help me to get it done in AIX as well?

Command working on GNU/LINUX:

Command -> date -d"Nov 14 02:31" "+%s"

Output -> 1542162660

Solution

  • You might do something like this with Perl, if you have POSIX::strptime Example program (totimestamp.pl):

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use POSIX ("tzset", "mktime");
use POSIX::strptime;

POSIX::tzset ();

my $ARGC= scalar (@ARGV);
my $tstamp;

if ($ARGC < 1) {
    $tstamp= time ();

} else {
    my $tstr= $ARGV[0];
    my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst);
    ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = 
    POSIX::strptime($tstr, "%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y");

    $tstamp= POSIX::mktime ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year);
}

printf ("%d\n", $tstamp);

    Usage:

    perl ./totimestamp.pl "Nov 16 14:40:00 2018"
1542375600