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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting UNIX time from the shell
Message-ID: <10030@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 89 13:43:29 GMT
References: <1343@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <10800028@bradley>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <10800028@bradley> vijay@bradley.UUCP writes:
>You do not need to write a C program to do that. A one liner
>shell command will do it for you (In C Shell or Bourne Shell).
>All you need is :
>   
>                  date | cut -f4,5 -d" "
>

I never use two processes where one will do.

	date +%T

gives me the time. (Oh well, so it doesn't give me my timezone, but
that's really an invariant, no?)
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Jean-Pierre Radley		CIS: 72160,1341		jpr@jpradley.UUCP