Date command does not follow Linux specifications (Mac OS X Lion)

Question

I have been developing a script on my linux box for quite some time, and wanted to run it on my Mac as well.

I thought that the functions on the Mac were the same as

Answer 1

man date indicates that it doesn't go beyond one second. I would recommend trying another language (Python 2):

$ python -c 'import time; print repr(time.time())'
1332334298.898616

For Python 3, use:

$ python -c 'import time; print(repr(time.time()))'