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Emacs Lisp interactive function that prompts for a unix epoch time stamp and converts it into a human readable date.
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unix-timestamp-to-date.el
(defun unix-timestamp-to-date ()
"Prompts for a unix epoch time stamp and converts it to a human-readable date"
(interactive)
(let* ((time-zone "UTC")
(time-unix (seconds-to-time (read-number "Unix epoch time stamp: ")))
(time-str (format-time-string "<%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M:%S>" time-unix time-zone)))
(message "Date: %s (%s)" time-str time-zone)))
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