On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:33:37AM -0500, Michael Nemeth wrote:

True but I believe that solaris comes with perl and old one but one should handle the date stuff. Atlest the one system I found here that does have an update perl reports sun pkg SUNWpl5u, Can any one confirm this? And can anyone supply the code to do a timestamp like the GNU date +%s ?

If there is no other way, this program (compiled on Solaris 8) will do it. Save the attachment, then:

$ uudecode tstamp.uue $ gunzip tstamp.gz $ ls -l tstamp -rwxr-xr-x 1 hstoerne other 3772 Jan 9 15:17 tstamp $ ./tstamp 1168352286

Source code for this utility is a whopping 7 lines:

#include <time.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("%d\n", (int) time(NULL)); return 0; }

Henrik

Hi, its is not difficult to create an timestamp but to create an timestamp like date it does is difficult:

perl -e 'use Date::Manip qw(ParseDate UnixDate);$date=&ParseDate("2007/01/08 15:45");print(UnixDate( $date , "%s" ));'

is one thing i have found but my solaris 9 don't Support it. Does anyone know an other solution to transform

2007/01/08 15:45

to

1168267500

Can someone test my solution on Solaris 10 or other Unixes?

thx Stefan