TIMETRANS(1)

💫 TIMETRANS(1) 💫

okay so bestie, this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page for timetrans and honestly? it's giving time-glow-up. it converts time into time. yes really. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

timetrans — Converts time into time

(no bc that's literally the whole job. time. into. time. iconic.)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

timetrans [units-options] [-count]

that's it, that's the whole vibe check 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so timetrans converts time from one type of unit to another. simple concept, powerful energy ✨

here's the tea tho — it works two different ways depending on what you hand it:

• if you specify any of the units options, timetrans will convert those time units into the number of seconds to which they add up 🔥
• if you give it the count option, timetrans will convert that number of seconds into the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds 💖

either way, the converted result gets printed out. and here's the important part, no cap: units options cannot be specified in the same execution as the count option, and vice versa. pick a lane bestie, you cannot have both 😭

timetrans is intended for use with DNSSEC-Tools, for calculating a zone's expiration time. so like, it's not just cute, it's useful. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💜 Units Options

the converted value of each unit is totaled and a single result printed. so you can stack them and it just adds up, slay ✨

• -seconds seconds — count of seconds to convert to seconds. (yes, seconds to seconds. it's a whole thing. we don't question it 💀)
• -minutes minutes — count of minutes to convert to seconds
• -hours hours — count of hours to convert to seconds
• -days days — count of days to convert to seconds
• -weeks weeks — count of weeks to convert to seconds

💖 Count Option

the specified seconds count is converted to the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. reverse uno card, love that for us 🎀

• -count seconds — count of seconds to convert to the appropriate set of units

🧚 Other Options

timetrans has the following miscellaneous options. the little extras, the accessories to the outfit 🌈

• -Version — displays the version information for timetrans and the DNSSEC-Tools package.

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

let's see her in action, because these ate, honestly 👑

Example 1: Converting 5 days into seconds

$(42)> timetrans -days 5
432000

Example 2: Converting 2 weeks into seconds

$(43)> timetrans -w 2
1209600

Example 3: Converting 8 days and 8 hours into seconds

$(44)> timetrans -d 8 -hours 8
720000

Example 4: Converting 1 week, 1 day, and 8 hours into seconds

$(46)> timetrans -w 1 -days 1 -h 8
720000

Example 5: Converting 14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, and 8 seconds into seconds

$(47)> timetrans -w 14 -d 4 -h 21 -m 8 -s 8
8888888

bestie said 8888888. the number of the beast but make it cute 🍓

Example 6: Converting 720000 seconds into time units

$(48)> timetrans -c 720000
1 week, 1 day, 8 hours

Example 7: Converting 1814421 seconds into time units

$(49)> timetrans -c 1814421
3 weeks, 21 seconds

Example 8: Converting 8888888 seconds into time units

$(50)> timetrans -c 8888888
14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, 8 seconds

see how examples 4 and 6 match up? and 5 and 8? the symmetry is lowkey stunning 😭✨

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2004-2014 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.

(legal stuff, but make it respectful 💜)

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• zonesigner(8)
• Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::timetrans.pm(3)

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was perl v5.42.0 from 2025-07-23, and yes she's still serving 💅💖 stay converting, stay glowing, periodt ✨🦋🎀