Working with shell scripts on hp-ux and need to convert time to epoch using date command. How to solve bad format character -s error?

Question

To Work on few shell scripts and I need to get the time in terms of epoch in hp-ux

I tried using

date +%s

but i got bad format character - s error i am allowed to use -u and -a options with date command in the environemnt

i tried perl but i dont have DateFormat library and TimePiece library is not installed. and i dont know how to deal with the epoch conversion from GMT to EST-10EDT timezone while factoring in the daylight saving in the EST-10EDT timezone. — Udit Maheshwari, Jun 02 '23 at 17:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '23 at 05:22

i tried perl but i dont have DateFormat library and TimePiece library is not installed. and i dont know how to deal with the epoch conversion from GMT to EST-10EDT timezone while factoring in the daylight saving in the EST-10EDT timezone.

for GMT you can simply use
```
perl -e 'print time'
```

for local time you can use

perl -e 'use POSIX qw(mktime); print mktime localtime'

Working with shell scripts on hp-ux and need to convert time to epoch using date command. How to solve bad format character -s error?

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