K 10 svn:author V 3 jmg K 8 svn:date V 27 1999-05-14T00:28:41.000000Z K 7 svn:log V 389 the month and three days are up for -hackers and the 24hrs for -committers. add a -j flag that tells date not to try to set the date. This allows you to use date as a userland interface to strptime. example: TZ=GMT date -j -f "%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z" "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 02:22:20 GMT" +%s which is the standard format for Last-modified headers in HTTP requests. only one to respond: eivind END