From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:57:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Pretty-print date in 'git log'
Message-ID: <E1DNcMp-0006sk-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <1113850922.23938.54.camel@orca.madrabbit.org>

> ray:~/work/home$ date -ud 'jan 1, 1970 + 1111111111 seconds'
> Fri Mar 18 01:58:31 UTC 2005
> ray:~/work/home$ date -ud 'jan 1, 1970 + 1111111111 seconds + 0800'
> Fri Mar 18 09:58:31 UTC 2005

I sent David a short script to do almost that, except that mine needed
to negate the timezone whereas yours elegantly changes +0800 to + 0800

In your 2nd example, you'll need 'sed' to replace UTC (or +0000 if
using -R) in the output by +0800, because the 1111111111 is the UTC
seconds, so the actual time is Fri Mar 18 01:58:31 UTC 2005 (as given
by your first example).

-Sanjoy