Convert an ISO date to seconds since epoch in linux bash

Question

I have a date in the ISO format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:SS (e.g. 2014-02-14T12:30). I\'d like to convert it in seconds since epoch using only the date command in linux bash.

A

Answer 1

With GNU date, specify the date to parse with -d and seconds since epoch with %s

$ date -d"2014-02-14T12:30" +%s
1392381000