On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, walter harms wrote: > date -u should use UTC does it work here also ? Yes. I haven't done extensive testing, but it uses the same mechanism as any other format, so it does UTC as well as any other part of date.c ./busybox date -d @1 Wed Dec 31 19:00:01 EST 1969 ./busybox date -u -d @1 Thu Jan 1 00:00:01 UTC 1970