CTIME(1)                     UNIX System V(local)                      CTIME(1)


NAME
      ctime, getdate - date conversions to and from numeric form

SYNOPSIS
      ctime seconds ...
      getdate date ...

DESCRIPTION
      Ctime converts one or more Unix-internal (number of seconds since 1 Jan
      1970) dates into a human-readable form, as supplied by ctime(3).  Getdate
      does the inverse, as done by getdate(3).

      Getdate actually accepts a somewhat wider range of input than just output
      from ctime or date(1); see getdate(3) for details.  Note that each date
      fed to getdate must be one argument; it may be necessary to enclose it in
      quotes.

SEE ALSO
      ctime(3), getdate(3), date(1)

DIAGNOSTICS
      Getdate will object and exit with a status of 1 if it cannot make sense
      of a date.

HISTORY
      Slightly-modified versions of programs written by Geoff Collyer at UTCS.




























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