NAME

timefmt

SYNOPSIS

timefmt OPTIONS TIME_STRING_TO_CONVERT

DESCRIPTION

timefmt formats the current date or INPUT_DATE based on the output format provided in options. The default input and output format is RFC3339. Formats are specified based on Golang’s time package including the common constants (e.g. RFC822, RFC1123).

For details see https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.Format.

One additional time layout provided by timefmt

• mysql “2006-01-02 15:04:05 -0700”

OPTIONS

-help

display help

-license

display license

-version

display version

-if, -input-format

Set format for input

-nl, -newline

if true add a trailing newline

-o, -output

output filename

-of, -output-format

Set format for output

-quiet

suppress error messages

-utc

timestamps in UTC

EXAMPLES

Format the date July, 7, 2016 in YYYY-MM-DD format

    timefmt -if "2006-01-02" -of "01/02/2006" "2017-12-02"

Yields “12/02/2017”

Format the MySQL date/time of 8:08am, July 2, 2016

    timefmt -input-format mysql -output-format RFC822  "2017-12-02 08:08:08"

Yields “02 Dec 17 08:08 UTC”

timefmt 1.3.5