Add support for Unix timestamps.

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Kyle Isom
2016-06-15 22:05:58 -07:00
parent 58e8465947
commit ce9604b4e1
2 changed files with 77 additions and 23 deletions

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utc: convert times to UTC
Usage: utc [-f format] [-o format] [-q] [-t] [-u] [-z zone] [time(s)...]
utc -h | utc help
utc converts times to UTC. If no arguments are provided, prints the
current time in UTC. If the only argument provided is "-", utc reads
newline-separated timestamps from standard input. If the argument is
@@ -8,8 +12,6 @@ the input and output timezones are the same (e.g., the local time zone
is UTC), a warning message will be printed on standard error. This can
be suppressed with the -q option.
Usage: utc [-f format] [-h] [-o format] [-q] [-u] [-z zone] [time(s)...]
Flags:
-f format Go timestamp format for input times. See the Go docs
@@ -20,22 +22,29 @@ Flags:
-h Print this help message.
-o format Go timestamp format for outputting times. It uses
the same format as the '-f' argument.
-o format Go timestamp format for outputting times.
It uses the same format as the '-f' argument.
Default value: 2006-01-02 15:04 MST
-q Suppress the timezone check warning message.
-u Timestamps are in UTC format and should be converted
to the timezone specified by the -z argument (which
defaults to 'Local'). Note that this isn't particularly
useful with no arguments.
-t Input times are Unix timestamps. Use with
-u to convert the timestamp to the timezone
specified by the -z option (which defaults
to Local).
-u Timestamps are in UTC format and should be
converted to the timezone specified by the
-z argument (which defaults to 'Local'). Note
that this isn't particularly useful with
no arguments.
-z zone Text form of the time zone; this can be in short
time zone abbreviation (e.g. MST) or a location
(e.g. America/Los_Angeles). This has no effect when
printing the current time.
time zone abbreviation (e.g. MST) or a
location (e.g. America/Los_Angeles). This
has no effect when printing the current
time.
Default value: Local
@@ -69,6 +78,15 @@ PST8PDT time zone):
+ Using a different output format:
$ utc -o '2006-01-02T15:03:04-0700' '2016-06-14 21:30'
2016-06-14T21:09:30-0700 = 2016-06-15T04:04:30+0000
+ Converting a Unix timestamp to a UTC time:
$ utc -t 1466052938
2016-06-15 21:55 PDT = 2016-06-16 04:55 UTC
+ Converting a Unix timestamp to local time:
$ utc -t -u 1466052938
2016-06-16 04:55 UTC = 2016-06-15 21:55 PDT
+ Converting a Unix timestamp to EST:
$ utc -t -u -z EST 1466052938
2016-06-16 04:55 UTC = 2016-06-15 23:55 EST
+ Example of the warning message when running utc on a machine
where the local time zone is UTC:
$ utc