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Created June 12, 2013 18:25
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Creates a linux command to quickly convert a date time string into an ObjectId string.
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#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
echo str_pad( dechex( strtotime( $argv[1] ) ), 8, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT ) . "0000000000000000\n";
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k-k commented Jun 12, 2013

Taken from Kristina Chodrow's answer on Stackoverflow.

Allows me to quickly create timestamp based ObjectIds for querying on the console. Just make executable and copy to /usr/bin/.

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