How to Convert Epoch Seconds To the Current Time in linux?

Linux / UNIX: Convert Epoch Seconds To the Current Time

how you can obtain the UNIX epoch time (number of seconds since 1970-01-01

00:00:00 UTC) using the Linux bash "date" command. It also shows how you can

convert a UNIX epoch time to a human readable time.

Obtain UNIX epoch time using bash

Obtaining the UNIX epoch time using bash is easy. Use the build-in date command and

instruct it to output the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. You can do this

by passing a format string as parameter to the date command. The format string for UNIX

epoch time is '%s'.

Print Current UNIX Time

Type the following command to display the seconds since the epoch:

Syntax: date +%s

date +%s

1569569962

Convert Epoch To Current Time

Type the command:

date -d @Epoch

date -d @1569569962

date -d "1970-01-01 1569569962 sec GMT"

Sample outputs:

Fri Sep 27 13:09:22 IST 2019

To convert number of seconds back to a more readable form, use a command like this:

date -d @1569569962 +"%d-%m-%Y %T %z"

Using AWK

awk 'BEGIN { print strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", 1569569962); }'

Output:

2019-09-27 13:09:22

Using Perl

perl -e 'print scalar(localtime(1569569962)), "\n"'

Output:

Fri Sep 27 13:09:22 2019