By Bobby
I recently got asked how to convert Unix timestamps to human readable date format in Bash.
Here is an example of how to generate a Unix timestamp using the date command:
date +%s
This will output a long string of numbers like this:
1606319820
This number represents the seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970.
So here’s how to convert Unix timestamps to human readable date format in Bash!
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