RTI (Rusty Time Interpreter) is command line tool for parsing between unix epoch time and date/time strings. It is written and Rust and should run on any platform.
This tool was inspired by the extremely useful epoch-echo by Ainsley Mcgrath. While the tool is fantastic and has more functionality than RTI currently, the main issues were speed and portability which inspired me to write this in Rust.
Currently you can either clone the repo and compile binaries yourself, or download with cargo. Using cargo:
cargo install rti
This will create a globally executable command that can be used in your command line. Note: This has only been tested on macOS.
RTI takes in an arbitrary number of command line arguments, either integer unix epochs or string date/time/datetimes and converts them to the opposite.
./rti 1 1650627609 2022-04-22\ 11:40:09
1 => 1970-01-01 00:00:01
1650627609 => 2022-04-22 11:40:09
2022-04-22 11:40:09 => 1650627609
There are also special keywords for now, yesterday, tomorrow which will give the epoch time for the current time of today, yesterday, and tomorrow respectively.
// run at April 22, 2022 at 8:11AM America/Chicago
./rti now yesterday tomorrow
now => 1650633061
yesterday => 1650546661
tomorrow => 1650719461
Currently RTI does not have support for the following (but are planned to be added over time). - Set custom time zone. Currently RTI only uses your computer's local timezone. - Set custom datetime parse tokens. - Copy output to clipboard