How to add hour/min/sec to epoch time from command line I am fetching the current EPOCH time of my VM by using `date +%s%3N` (including milli sec as well). Is there a way we can add hr or min or sec (to retrieve the future time) to current epoch time and retrieve it from the command line?

yes, do as following to adding an hour to the current EPOCH (Using GNU date):


date -d'+1hour' +%s%3N


or adding an hour and 10 minutes and 20seconds


date -d'+1hour +10minutes +20seconds' +%s%3N


or add all in seconds (1hour+10min+20sec=4220sec):


date -d'+4220seconds' +%s%3N