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		vinodc on April 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) The author has helpfully open-sourced the scripts as well, some of which are quite helpful like this one to convert dates to unix time and back: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/homedir/blob/master/bin/%2... Agree with the commit message; I've probably spent way too much time the past decade firing up a python prompt or using an online epoch converter to do this.

Hello71 on April 5, 2020 [–]

  date -d @$1 +%Y-%m-%d

danappelxx on April 6, 2020 | [–]

$ date -R Gets you very close with fewer characters

Hello71 on April 7, 2020 | | [–]

I mean, if you're not fixed on the output format, then date +%c.

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