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CONVDATE(1)
NAME
  convdate - convert time/date strings and numbers

SYNOPSIS
  convdate [ -c ] [ -n ] [ -s ] arg...

DESCRIPTION
  Convdate translate the date/time strings specified as arguments on its
  command line, outputting the results one to a line.

OPTIONS
  -c   If the ``-c'' flag is used, then each argument is taken to be a time_t
       and is output in ctime format.

  -n   If the ``-n'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date
       string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a time_t; see
       time(2).

  -s   If the ``-s'' flag is used, then each argument is taken as a date
       string to be parsed by parsedate(3) and is output as a string
       formatted by ctime(3).  This is the default.

EXAMPLES
       % convdate 'feb 10 10am'
       Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991

       % convdate 12pm 5/4/90
       Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 1991
       Fri May	4 00:00:00 1990

       % convdate -n 'feb 10 10am' '12pm 5/4/90'
       666198000
       641880000

       % convdate -c 666198000
       Sun Feb 10 10:00:00 1991

HISTORY
  Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>.  This is revision 1.2, dated
  1998/05/20.

SEE ALSO
  parsedate(3).

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