- # Use right unix epoch to account for leap seconds.
- export TZ=right/UTC; # See [1]
-
- # Convert date strings into Unix epoch
- unixEpoch1="$(must date --date="$date1" +%s)";
- unixEpoch2="$(must date --date="$date2" +%s)";
+ # Convert date strings into Unix epoch. # See [1]
+ unixEpoch1="$(TZ=right/UTC date --date="$date1" +%s)" || die "Problem with $(declare -p date1)";
+ unixEpoch2="$(TZ=right/UTC date --date="$date2" +%s)" || die "Problem with $(declare -p date2)";