Re: awk 'system("date +%s -d ")'

On 2/24/2008 3:06 PM, DanielC wrote:
> I tried to use awk to convert time format, but got below errors:
> 
> # awk 'BEGIN {system("date +%s -d " "09:14:03")}'
> 1203844443
> # awk 'BEGIN {system("date +%s -d " "2008-02-24 09:14:03")}'
> date: too many non-option arguments: 09:14:03
> Try `date --help' for more information.
>  

$ awk 'BEGIN {system("date +%s -d " "2008-02-24 09:14:03")}'
date: extra operand `09:14:03'
Try `date --help' for more information.
$ awk 'BEGIN {system("date +%s -d " "\"2008-02-24 09:14:03\"")}'
1203866043

Of course, with GNU awk you could just use it's built in time functions...

	Ed.