Calculating the difference between two dates
 

Sorry guys,

Its late, and my brain isnt working.

Im trying to calculate the difference between two dates.

Doing this by taking Todays date is subtracting it from the Target date.

Im getting todays date with date +%s to get time since the epoch, but how do i convert the other time to it?

(there are a few examples, one of which is time since the last boot)

Using the command who -b how do i convert into UNIX time? (Or is there a better way of doing it?)

Cheers

In 'man date' :
So to convert the date from the 'who -b' command, you can do something like :

date -d "$(who -b|tr -s " "|cut -d " " -f 4-)" +%s

The 'tr' command eliminates the multiple spaces at the start of the output string, and the 'cut' command extracts only the date and time.
$(...) gives the output of the command inside it.