Am Mittwoch, den 19.04.2006, 13:03 +0100 schrieb Dan Track: > On 4/19/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dan Track wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Does anyone know how to convert between the `date -s` output to > > > timestamp and vice versa. Also does anyone know how to get the > > > timestamp for a date period in the past or future? > > > > I don't really understand the question. > > > > Please give an example of the two formats you want to convert between. > > > > Paul. > > > Hi Paul > I'd like to convert > Wed Apr 19 13:02:16 BST 2006 --> timestamp > or > timestamp --> Wed Apr 19 13:02:16 BST 2006 > > How would I do the above? > > Is there a simple script for this? Did you mean an POSIX date ? Is this what you want ?: R 2.2.1>date() [1] "Wed Apr 19 14:33:32 2006" R 2.2.1>as.integer(ISOdate(2006,4,19,14,33,32)) [1] 1145457212 R 2.2.1> (I am using R for this (see www.r-project.org) Reinhard > > thanks > Dan >
