title: Getting human readable date from Epoch into variable
body: <p>Okay, this is probably a very basic question; but, I'm just getting back in the saddle with Linux.</p>
  
  <p>I have a variable that hold an Epoch time called pauseTime.
  I need that variable to become human readable (something like 2012-06-13 13:48:30).</p>
  
  <p>I know I can just type in</p>
  
  <pre><code>date -d @133986838 //just a random number there
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and that will print something similar.  But I need to get the variable to hold that human readable date, instead of the epoch time...  I keep running into errors with everything I'm trying.  Any thoughts on how I can do this?</p>