get_epoch

A shell native method of getting the epoch value for a given date stamp

Note

This script was written to run on macos with coreutils installed, there are several commands that begin with g that will need to have the g removed to run on another system.

Test script runs:

1000 tries: https://asciinema.org/a/6q9TPpe4cZA4Ll49vDl3mj1tq

10000 tries: https://asciinema.org/a/z1KBV1Sri9zv2xv4jhu6frFFR