GNU单位:

$ units
2411 units, 71 prefixes, 33 nonlinear units
You have: (10hr+36min+10s)-(10hr+33min+56s)
You want: s
    * 134
    / 0.0074626866
You have: (10hr+36min+10s)-(10hr+33min+56s)
You want: min
    * 2.2333333
    / 0.44776119

#!/bin/bash

START_TIME=$(date +%s)

sleep 4

echo "Total time elapsed: $(date -ud "@$(($(date +%s) - $START_TIME))" +%T) (HH:MM:SS)"

$ ./total_time_elapsed.sh 
Total time elapsed: 00:00:04 (HH:MM:SS)

使用GNU日期(可靠的Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)概括@nisetama的解决方案:

start=`date`
# <processing code>
stop=`date`
duration=`date -ud@$(($(date -ud"$stop" +%s)-$(date -ud"$start" +%s))) +%T`

echo $start
echo $stop
echo $duration

收益率:

Wed Feb 7 12:31:16 CST 2018
Wed Feb 7 12:32:25 CST 2018
00:01:09

另一种选择是使用dateutils (http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/#datediff):)中的datediff

$ datediff 10:33:56 10:36:10
134s
$ datediff 10:33:56 10:36:10 -f%H:%M:%S
0:2:14
$ datediff 10:33:56 10:36:10 -f%0H:%0M:%0S
00:02:14

你也可以用gawk。Mawk 1.3.4也有strftime和mktime，但旧版本的Mawk和nawk没有。

$ TZ=UTC0 awk 'BEGIN{print strftime("%T",mktime("1970 1 1 10 36 10")-mktime("1970 1 1 10 33 56"))}'
00:02:14

或者这里有另一种GNU日期的方法:

$ date -ud@$(($(date -ud'1970-01-01 10:36:10' +%s)-$(date -ud'1970-01-01 10:33:56' +%s))) +%T
00:02:14

我知道这是一篇较老的文章，但我今天在编写一个脚本时偶然发现了它，该脚本将从日志文件中获取日期和时间并计算delta。下面的脚本当然是多余的，我强烈建议检查我的逻辑和数学。

#!/bin/bash

dTime=""
tmp=""

#firstEntry="$(head -n 1 "$LOG" | sed 's/.*] \([0-9: -]\+\).*/\1/')"
firstEntry="2013-01-16 01:56:37"
#lastEntry="$(tac "$LOG" | head -n 1 | sed 's/.*] \([0-9: -]\+\).*/\1/')"
lastEntry="2014-09-17 18:24:02"

# I like to make the variables easier to parse
firstEntry="${firstEntry//-/ }"
lastEntry="${lastEntry//-/ }"
firstEntry="${firstEntry//:/ }"
lastEntry="${lastEntry//:/ }"

# remove the following lines in production
echo "$lastEntry"
echo "$firstEntry"

# compute days in last entry
for i in `seq 1 $(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $2}')`; do {
  case "$i" in
   1|3|5|7|8|10|12 )
    dTime=$(($dTime+31))
    ;;
   4|6|9|11 )
    dTime=$(($dTime+30))
    ;;
   2 )
    dTime=$(($dTime+28))
    ;;
  esac
} done

# do leap year calculations for all years between first and last entry
for i in `seq $(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $1}') $(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $1}')`; do {
  if [ $(($i%4)) -eq 0 ] && [ $(($i%100)) -eq 0 ] && [ $(($i%400)) -eq 0 ]; then {
    if [ "$i" = "$(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $1}')" ] && [ $(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $2}') -lt 2 ]; then {
      dTime=$(($dTime+1))
    } elif [ $(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $2}') -eq 2 ] && [ $(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $3}') -lt 29 ]; then {
      dTime=$(($dTime+1))
    } fi
  } elif [ $(($i%4)) -eq 0 ] && [ $(($i%100)) -ne 0 ]; then {
    if [ "$i" = "$(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $1}')" ] && [ $(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $2}') -gt 2 ]; then {
      dTime=$(($dTime+1))
    } elif [ $(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $2}') -eq 2 ] && [ $(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $3}') -ne 29 ]; then {
      dTime=$(($dTime+1))
    } fi
  } fi
} done

# substract days in first entry
for i in `seq 1 $(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $2}')`; do {
  case "$i" in
   1|3|5|7|8|10|12 )
    dTime=$(($dTime-31))
    ;;
   4|6|9|11 )
    dTime=$(($dTime-30))
    ;;
   2 )
    dTime=$(($dTime-28))
    ;;
  esac
} done

dTime=$(($dTime+$(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $3}')-$(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $3}')))

# The above gives number of days for sample. Now we need hours, minutes, and seconds
# As a bit of hackery I just put the stuff in the best order for use in a for loop
dTime="$(($(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $6}')-$(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $6}'))) $(($(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $5}')-$(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $5}'))) $(($(echo $lastEntry|awk '{print $4}')-$(echo $firstEntry|awk '{print $4}'))) $dTime"
tmp=1
for i in $dTime; do {
  if [ $i -lt 0 ]; then {
    case "$tmp" in
     1 )
      tmp="$(($(echo $dTime|awk '{print $1}')+60)) $(($(echo $dTime|awk '{print $2}')-1))"
      dTime="$tmp $(echo $dTime|awk '{print $3" "$4}')"
      tmp=1
      ;;
     2 )
      tmp="$(($(echo $dTime|awk '{print $2}')+60)) $(($(echo $dTime|awk '{print $3}')-1))"
      dTime="$(echo $dTime|awk '{print $1}') $tmp $(echo $dTime|awk '{print $4}')"
      tmp=2
      ;;
     3 )
      tmp="$(($(echo $dTime|awk '{print $3}')+24)) $(($(echo $dTime|awk '{print $4}')-1))"
      dTime="$(echo $dTime|awk '{print $1" "$2}') $tmp"
      tmp=3
      ;;
    esac
  } fi
  tmp=$(($tmp+1))
} done

echo "The sample time is $(echo $dTime|awk '{print $4}') days, $(echo $dTime|awk '{print $3}') hours, $(echo $dTime|awk '{print $2}') minutes, and $(echo $dTime|awk '{print $1}') seconds."

您将得到如下输出。

2012 10 16 01 56 37
2014 09 17 18 24 02
The sample time is 700 days, 16 hours, 27 minutes, and 25 seconds.

我修改了一点脚本，使其独立(即。只是设置变量值)，但也许总体思想也是如此。您可能需要对负值进行额外的错误检查。

日期可以给你的差异和格式为您(OS X选项显示)

date -ujf%s $(($(date -jf%T "10:36:10" +%s) - $(date -jf%T "10:33:56" +%s))) +%T
# 00:02:14

date -ujf%s $(($(date -jf%T "10:36:10" +%s) - $(date -jf%T "10:33:56" +%s))) \
    +'%-Hh %-Mm %-Ss'
# 0h 2m 14s

某些字符串处理可以删除这些空值

date -ujf%s $(($(date -jf%T "10:36:10" +%s) - $(date -jf%T "10:33:56" +%s))) \
    +'%-Hh %-Mm %-Ss' | sed "s/[[:<:]]0[hms] *//g"
# 2m 14s

如果你把较早的时间放在前面，这是行不通的。如果你需要处理,改变$(($(日期 ...) - $( 日期……)))(echo $(美元日期 ...) - $( 公元前日期…)| | tr - d -)