timeconverter

convert timestamps to local time or specified timezone

install

Direct downloads are available through the releases page.

usage

timeconverter [options] <command>

Options
  -format string
        format to use (options "ANSIC", "Kitchen", "RFC1123", "RFC1123Z", "RFC3339", "RFC3339Nano", "RFC822", "RFC822Z", "RFC850", "RubyDate", "Stamp", "StampMicro", "StampMilli", "StampNano", "UnixDate", "UnixSeconds") (default "Mon 2006 Jan 02 03:04pm MST")
  -location string
        tzdata location to convert to (default "Local")
  -type string
        what type of timestamps in the input (options "iso8601", "unix") (default "iso8601")
  -version
        print version number and exit
Commands
  help    -> show this help
  version -> print version number and exit
  now     -> print current timestamp for location and format
  <value> -> string with timestamps in it
  -       -> pipe input with timestamps from stdin

format

The format is specified using Golang formatting string. See docs for more info and some examples.

location

The location is specified using the IANA time zone database.

examples

command line

convert all dates in kubernetes pod logs

$ kubectl logs my-pod | timeconverter -

convert all dates in server log to local time

$ timeconverter - < server.log

convert timestamp to local time

$ timeconverter 2019-03-17T00:00:00Z

convert timestamp to CST/CDT

$ timeconverter -location="America/Chicago" 2019-03-17T00:00:00Z

convert time to local time using built-in ANSIC format

$ timeconverter -format="ANSIC" 2019-03-17T00:00:00Z

convert unix timestamp to local time

$ timeconverter -type=unix 1553534903

bash aliases

  alias lt='timeconverter now'
  alias cst='timeconverter -location="America/Chicago" now'
  alias uts='timeconverter -type=unix'