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Give the most awesome example of how to parse the output of date

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back into epoch time.  Everytime I'm asked to do this by someone I
have to spend about ten minutes recreating the same command line.
So record it under examples.
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@ -328,6 +328,14 @@ The command:
sets the time to
.Li "2:32 PM" ,
without modifying the date.
.Pp
Finally the command:
.Pp
.Dl "date -j -f ""%a %b %d %T %Z %Y"" ""`date`"" ""+%s"""
.Pp
can be used to parse the ouput from
.Nm
and express it in epoch time.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of
.Nm :