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Differences between version 19 and predecessor to the previous major change of TimeNotes.

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Newer page: version 19 Last edited on Friday, April 7, 2006 7:22:09 pm by AndreasWeigel Revert
Older page: version 18 Last edited on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:19:43 pm by LawrenceDoliveiro Revert
@@ -50,9 +50,15 @@
  </pre> 
  
  (__convdate__ is part of the __inn__ package.) 
  
- Or use the mktime(3) function available in various programming languages. 
+Or using the date command::  
+  
+ <pre>  
+ date --date="<date> <time> UTC" +%s  
+ </pre>  
+  
+ Or use the mktime(3) function available in various programming languages. 
  
  <verbatim> 
  <?php 
  $ts = mktime(11, 49, 00, 10, 17, 2004); 
@@ -61,9 +67,9 @@
  echo strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z<br>", $ts); 
  ?> 
  </verbatim> 
  
- If you run this script you'll get output like this (depending on the TimeZone of your server) 
+If you run this script you'll get output like this (depending on the TimeZone of your server) 
  
  <verbatim> 
  2004-10-17 11:49:00 NZDT 
  2004-10-16 22:49:00 UTC