what is the windows equivalent of the command “date+%s”

Question

I\'m writing a batch script and I need the unix time. It\'s easy under linux, but I can\'t figure out how to do this in windows.

Answer 1

If by "unix time" you mean the epoch second, then Windows doesn't include tools to produce that. Instead, you can install third-party tools. For example:

• Install Cygwin.
• Find the date binary (under C:\Cygwin\ or wherever you installed it)
• Use it as you would in Linux.

Alternately, per the awesome comment on this answer, you could install GNU Coreutils which also include a date command. It includes a number of other tools that you may not need, but then, so does Cygwin.