[rrd-users] Re: Help with Bash script to calc end-time in multiples of 300 ?

[Tobi Oetiker]

Hi Simon,

I would use


perl -e 'print "".localtime(time - time % 300)'



> Rob Conway wrote:
>
> >I just use "date +%s" to get the unix time but how can I easily
> >round this value ?
>
> etime=`date +%s`
> step=300
> etime=$(( ${etime} - ( ${etime} % ${step} ) ))
>
> Now, can someone show me how to convert the resulting end time to a
> human readable form - eg so I can use it in a gprint statement ?
>
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