A small utility for working with UNIX time.
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. Late at night, I quickly built the original version of this tool. Maybe someone is having the same issue.
As it's using chrono as date and time library this should also work on Windows and other systems not having the date command.
Benchmarks were executed with the hyperfine utility:
```shell $> hyperfine 'date +%s' 'unixtime' --warmup 50 Benchmark #1: date +%s Time (mean ± σ): 1.5 ms ± 0.6 ms [User: 0.5 ms, System: 0.6 ms] Range (min … max): 0.9 ms … 5.5 ms 626 runs
Warning: Command took less than 5 ms to complete. Results might be inaccurate. Warning: Statistical outliers were detected. Consider re-running this benchmark on a quiet PC without any interferences from other programs. It might help to use the '--warmup' or '--prepare' options.
Benchmark #2: unixtime Time (mean ± σ): 2.7 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 0.9 ms, System: 0.6 ms] Range (min … max): 2.0 ms … 6.4 ms 476 runs
Warning: Command took less than 5 ms to complete. Results might be inaccurate. Warning: Statistical outliers were detected. Consider re-running this benchmark on a quiet PC without any interferences from other programs. It might help to use the '--warmup' or '--prepare' options.
Summary 'date +%s' ran 1.79 ± 0.85 times faster than 'unixtime' ```
Installation requires the Rust-Toolchain. Then install it by executing:
bash
cargo install unixtime
Then you should be able to launch unixtime.