[CentOS] convert standard time to unix time bash

[Les Mikesell]

Tony Asnicar wrote:
> Thank you!!
> 
> The answer waas:
> 
> date --date="2009-06-18 18:57" +%s
> 
> thanks :)

The things that --date will accept aren't very well documented in the 
man page but you can throw things like 'yesterday' or "next-week" or "2 
months ago" at it too.   And you can omit it and just use the +%s to get 
the current unix time.

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   Les Mikesell
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