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title	date	tags	draft
Seconds since last pacman sync	2022-05-19T08:45:13Z	archlinux linux pacman	false

We can echo the result of the current timestamp subtracted from the last edit timestamp in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/desc.

echo $(expr $(date +%s) - $(grep -rn -A 1 %INSTALLDATE% /var/lib/pacman/local/*/desc | grep -oP '\d{10,}$' | sort | tail -1))