Learning AWK Programming

The mktime (datespec) function

The mktime function converts the datespec string into a timestamp of the same format as returned by the systime() function, the number of seconds elapsed since the epoch. The datespec is a string of the YYYY MM DD HH MM SS format :

$ vi mktime.awkBEGIN    {    print "Number of seconds since the Epoch"    print "mktime(\"2018 01 15 20 20 10\") : " mktime("2014 12 14 30 20 10")}$ awk -f mktime.awk

The output of the execution of the previous code is as follows:

Number of seconds since the Epochmktime("2018 01 15 20 20 10") : 1418604610