Covert string to a date bash

Question

I am trying to convert ProcessedTime": 1545166011.794351 to a date using date function in bash script, what is the best way to convert it ?

Answer 1

With GNU awk:

echo 154166011.794351 | awk '{print strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",$0)}'

Output:

1974-11-20 08:53:31

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Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/168317/74329

Answer 2

date -d @154166011.794351

Date command should work fine.