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* Date-time conversion from "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS" to unix epoch

[ Ref: http://www.varioustopics.com/general-linux-discussion/704132-date-time-conversion-from-yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mi-ss-to-unix-epoch.html ]

 

 % perl -MDate::Manip -le 'print UnixDate(ParseDate("2002-07-04 12:34:56"),"%s")' 

1025804096

% perl -le 'print scalar localtime(1025804096)'
Thu Jul 4 12:34:56 2002