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NAME
       seconds - convert human-readable date (and time) to seconds since epoch

SYNOPSIS
       seconds date ...

DESCRIPTION
       Seconds  prints the number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970 corresponding to
       one or more human-readable dates.  Each date must be one  argument;  it
       will usually be necessary to enclose it in quotes.

       Seconds  accepts  a somewhat wider range of input than just output from
       date(1).  The main requirement is that the date must  be  fully  speci‐
       fied, with a day of month, month and year in any order.  The month must
       be an English name (or abbreviation), not a number, and the  year  must
       contain  4  digits.   Unambiguous time-zone names are understood (i.e.,
       not or time zones may be written as ±hhmm.  Case is ignored.

EXAMPLES
       Print the names of all files under modified since the start of  23  May
       2011.

              du -ta | awk '$1 >= '^`{seconds '23 may 2011'}^' {print $2}'

SEE ALSO
       date(1), du(1), mtime(1), ctime(2)

BUGS
       All-numeric dates, popular in the USA, are simply ambiguous, more so if
       the year is truncated to 2 digits.



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