On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:25:16PM -0600, Jeff Nelson wrote: > Dan Rue wrote: > > $ date -r 1234567890 > > Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009 > > What implementation of 'date' are you using? On Ubuntu Ibex I get: > > $ date -r 1234567890 > date: 1234567890: No such file or directory > > Nor can I find an option that reproduces your results. > > Thanks. I used date on FreeBSD. It took me a while to find this, but here's the ugly gnu equivalent: # date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 1234567890 seconds' Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009 Dan