A small utility to print the current unix-time on STDOUT.
Sometimes I need the current unix-time for interacting with APIs and other stuff. But I never remember the correct command for it (it's date +%s). I mostly end up googling the current unix-time..
As it's using chrono as date and time library this should also work on Windows and other systems not having the date command.
Late at night, I quickly built this tool. Maybe someone is having the same issue.
It's fast as the ususal date tool:
$ time unixtime
1617888769
unixtime 0.00s user 0.00s system 83% cpu 0.001 total
$ time date +%s
1617888769
date +%s 0.00s user 0.00s system 77% cpu 0.001 total
Installation requires the Rust-Toolchain. Then install it by executing:
bash
cargo install unixtime
Then you should be able to launch unixtime.