https://askubuntu.com/a/400273/413480
Another possibility to use the ping -D
option which gets you the timestamp as Unix time.
tilo@t-ubuntu:~$ ping google.com -D
PING google.com (173.194.33.73) 56(84) bytes of data.
[1388886989.442413] 64 bytes from sea09s15-in-f9.1e100.net (173.194.33.73): icmp_req=1 ttl=57 time=11.1 ms
[1388886990.443845] 64 bytes from sea09s15-in-f9.1e100.net (173.194.33.73): icmp_req=2 ttl=57 time=11.0 ms