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Get Apple Epoch Time from Unix Epoch Time
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| #/bin/bash | |
| # 1) create function to get current Unix Epoch Time | |
| EPOCHTIME () { date -u +%s; } | |
| # $ EPOCHTIME | |
| # 1378623423 | |
| # $ EPOCHTIME | |
| # 1378623429 | |
| # 2) get Unix Epoch Time at 12am on January 1, 2001, as STATIC variable | |
| APPLETIME="$(date -d 20010101 -u +%s)" | |
| # $ echo $APPLETIME | |
| # 978307200 | |
| # 3) create the function to obtain current Apple Epoch Time | |
| APPLEPOCH () { echo "$(($(EPOCHTIME)-$(APPLETIME)))"; } | |
| # $ APPLEPOCH | |
| # 400349476 | |
| # $ APPLEPOCH | |
| # 400349478 | |
| # now Apple Epoch Time can be referenced by a DYNAMIC variable like this: | |
| # $ echo $(APPLEPOCH) | |
| # 400349922 | |
| # $ echo $(APPLEPOCH) | |
| # 400349926 |
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