feat(unitproc):timeEpochNS:Add date-string parsing feature

[BK-2020-03.git] / unitproc / bktemp-dateTimeShort

diff --git a/unitproc/bktemp-dateTimeShort b/unitproc/bktemp-dateTimeShort
index b469d327683153c0ab1a719e615b1636138929c2..cabb4ba4565b56cccbc5f5bc0fe01d9358d648e5 100644 (file)
--- a/unitproc/bktemp-dateTimeShort
+++ b/unitproc/bktemp-dateTimeShort
@@ -35,13 +35,15 @@ dateTimeShort(){
     # Construct and deliver separator-les date string
     TIME_CURRENT_SHORT="$(date -d "$TIME_INPUT" +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S%z)";
     echo "$TIME_CURRENT_SHORT";
-} # Get date&time without separators
+} # Get YYYYmmddTHHMMSS±zzzz
 
 #==BEGIN sample code==
 echo "The current day and time is :$(dateTimeShort)";
 echo "Contact lost with STS-107 on:$(dateTimeShort "2003-02-01T08:59:15-05:00")";
 echo "Bitcoin started on          :$(dateTimeShort "@1231006505")";
-
+testDate="2020-07-07T02:30:11,690097074+00:00";
+echo "This string was generated using 'date --iso-8601=ns':$testDate";
+echo "Using dateTimeShort, it appears as:$(dateTimeShort "$testDate")";
 #==END sample code==
 
 # Author: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval