Convert date in dd mm yyyy format to UNIX timestamp

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hello All,

I have a date in DD/MM/YYYY format. I am trying to convert this into unix timestamp. I have tried following:

date -d $mydate +%s

where mydate = 23/12/2016 00:00:00

I am getting following error:

date: extra operand `+%s'
Try `date --help' for more information.

Please advise.

Thanks
Angshuman

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The date string has spaces in it. Surround the mydate variable with spaces.
Note that the order you have for elements of the date string ( %d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S )
may require a locale change to work correctly

date -d "$mydate" +%s

Because of my locale to test this I had to rewrite the string to:

%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S
12/23/2016 00:00:00