On Friday 23 March 2007, Frank Smith wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
><< snippage re /etc/amandates >>
>
>> ===================================
>> /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 0 1174288560
>> /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 1 1174453248
>> /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 2 1174541095
>> /GenesAmandaHelper-0.6 3 1174625228
>> [snip another 100k of different pathlistings]
>> ===================================
>> The number after the path is the level, and I'm not sure what the last
>> number is, possibly a timestamp, but I've NDI what notation format
>> that represents.  Swahili to this old fart.
>
>The number is a timestamp in UNIX epoch time (seconds since 1-1-1970).
>Your first number, 1174288560, is Mon Mar 19 07:16:00 2007 UTC
>
>You can do the conversion with the Perl function localtime, , or a
>C program using the system ctime function, or use one of the online
>javascript converters like <http://dan.drydog.com/unixdatetime.html>
>
>Frank

Thanks, Frank.  I figured maybe it was Julian, but those numbers look way 
too old to be current.  Unix epoch time format never occurred to me.  But 
it makes perfect sense now.

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