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 > # date -d @1234567890 Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009