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<body>On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 01:10:00 +0100, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca@ntlworld.com> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"> <div>We think the 2 numbers it'll log at the end will always be the same, demonstrating that the UTC flag is irrelevant in this case.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think MythWelcome passes an argument of "2013-09-05T17:00:00". In that case the numbers will be different (?)</div><div><br></div><div>It's too late here now for me to think about it clearly. Good luck.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yet another occasion of waking up with a clear head and apologizing for what I said the night before...</div><div><br></div><div>Daryl & Jerry are right, I was spouting rubbish. Your current script (with Bill's $LOGFILE amendments) is necessary & correct.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill, try that command again:</div><div><br></div><div>date -u --date "`date --date @1378403399 +%F" "%T`" +%s</div><div><br></div><div>It really shouldn't return the same number. I was unlucky enough to pick an example which simply transposed 2 digits in the middle!</div></body></html>