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Re: date +%s ignores TZ
From: |
Jan Engelhardt |
Subject: |
Re: date +%s ignores TZ |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Mar 2008 02:40:01 +0100 (CET) |
On Feb 29 2008 15:26, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> echo $[`date +%s` % 86400];
>
>Note that the $[expression] syntax is deprecated and is scheduled for
>removal from a future version of the shell. Please convert to using
>the now standard $((expression)) syntax.
>
> echo $(( $(date +%s) % 86400 ));
$(()) is easily confusable with $(), I therefore ask $[] to be not removed,
more like the reverse actually.