mbtime
Section:  MB-System 5.0  (1)
Updated:  3 June 2013 
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NAME

mbtime - Translate between calendar time values and unix time.

 
VERSION

Version 5.0

 
SYNOPSIS

mbtime [-Mtime_d -Tyear/month/day/hour/minute/second -V -H]

 
DESCRIPTION

The program mbtime converts time values between unix time (seconds since
1970/01/01 00:00:00.000000) and calendar time (e.g. 2008/006/05/17/24/32.000000).
Unix time is also known as POSIX time or epoch time, and are typically represented
in MB-System documentation (and source code) as "time_d" values.
The input time is set using the command line arguments -Mtime_d for
epoch seconds and -Tyear/month/day/hour/minute/second for
calendar time. The output time (in the form not specified as input) is
written to stdout.

 
MB-SYSTEM AUTHORSHIP

David W. Caress




  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute



Dale N. Chayes




  Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping




  University of New Hampshire



Christian do Santos Ferreira




  MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences




  University of Bremen

 
OPTIONS


-H


This "help" flag cause the program to print out a description
of its operation and then exit immediately.
-M


time_d



Sets the input time to be time_d in unix time, which
is defined as seconds since 00:00:00.000000 01 January 1970. If -M is
specified, this time will be converted to calendar time and output
to stdout in the form

        yyyy/mm/dd/hh/mm/ss.ssssss

-T


year/month/day/hour/minute/second



Sets the input time to be year/month/day/hour/minute/second.
If -T is specified, this time will be converted to
time_d in epoch (Unix) seconds, which
are seconds since 00:00:00.000000 01 January 1970.
The time_d value will be output to stdout.
-V


Normally, mbtime only prints out the converted time.  If the
-V flag is given, then mbtime works in a "verbose" mode and
also outputs the program version being used.


 
EXAMPLES

Suppose one wishes to convert the current time (06 June 2008 18:37:14.000000)
to unix seconds. The following command:

        mbtime -T2008/06/06/18/37/14.0




yields the following result:

        1212777434.000000


Suppose on wishes to convert the unix time 1212777434.0 to calendar time.
The following command:

        mbtime -M1212777434.0




yields the following result:

        2008/06/06/18/37/14.000000


 
SEE ALSO

mbsystem(1), mbio(1)

 
BUGS

Never bugs, but perhaps our good friends, the terrestrial isopods.



 
Index

NAME

VERSION

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

MB-SYSTEM AUTHORSHIP

OPTIONS

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

BUGS