Unix Scripting: Time and Date

If you have followed this blog for a while, you should remember how to use variables in Unix shell scripts.

Going further, I’d like to show you some basics of working with time and date in your scripts - generating all sorts of timestamps and timing some parts of your script for reporting purposes.

The history of (Unix) time

In case you didn’t know, time in Unix starts with a Unix epoch, sometimes also referred to as POSIX epoch. The Unix epoch is the time 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.

Read more at UNIX Tutorial