I have a complete date plus hours and minutes. I would like to add a number of seconds and display the result as a date "day.month.year hour:minute".
"date" doesn't seem to be able to add seconds to a given date.
Ubuntu – Add seconds to a given date in bash
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Best Answer
In fact, the GNU
datecommand (which is the standard implementation in Ubuntu) can add date offsets directly - for example to add 3662 seconds (1hr, 1min, 2sec) to a given dateHowever, some care is required with timezones and daylight savings - a safer option is probably to convert the original time into seconds since the start of the epoch, and add the desired offset to that before converting back to the desired format, e.g.