Re: [HTCondor-users] convert from 'date +"%H-%M %m-%d-%Y"' to seconds from 1970

[Stefano Dal Pra <stefano.dalpra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Il 05/05/20 11:29, Arne Babenhauserheide ha scritto:
> Beyer, Christoph <christoph.beyer@xxxxxxx> writes:
> > maybe a stupid question, is there a way to translate a `date +"%H-%M %m-%d-%Y"` (or similar) into a HTC usable 'seconds-since-1970' maybe using time() or formatTime() inside a classadd string ?
> >
> > I know formatTime() works the other way round but I would like to do some START calculation based on a date given by the user which would be more conveniant to be in 'human readable' format ...
> Hereâs a long form:
>
> guile -c '(import (srfi srfi-19))(display (date->string (string->date "18-06 05-24-1983" "~H-~M ~m-~d-~Y") "~s\n"))'
>
> Iâm sure thereâs a shorter shell-command, but I donât have it at hand
> right now.

Maybe this one?

~$ date --date "2020-04-25 12:30" +%s
1587810600

Stefano


> Best wishes,
> Arne