Linux Date Command: Convert Named Stats Dump Date

If you have a named statistics dump file in Linux and want to convert the date and time in the file to a different format, you can use the date command. Here’s an example:

Assuming you have a named statistics dump file named named_stats.txt with the following content:

The timestamp 1614223000 represents the number of seconds since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC).

To convert this timestamp to a readable date and time format, you can use the date command with the --date option followed by the timestamp. Here’s the command:

This will output the date and time in your system’s default format, which might look something like this:

You can customize the output format by adding a + followed by a format string. For example, to output the date and time in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, use the following command:

This will output:

(Provigil)