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From: jwc@unify.uucp (J. William Claypool)
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Subject: Re: Dates in C-news
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Date: 24 Jan 90 17:34:50 GMT
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In article <XJWGA+@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
>Randal Schwartz <merlyn@iwarp.intel.com> wrote:
>> I can write you a Perl program to translate it back, if you insist.
>
>Y'know, as soon as I saw RandalL's name on that article I knew he was
>going to offer a perl solution.
>
>In <C68n*p1@cs.psu.edu> flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>> Conversely, you can use
>>          $NEWSBIN/getdate now 'now -1 day'
>> to find out that it's now 633139077, and yesterday was 633052677.
>
>Yes, you can.  That isn't always completely helpful though.  Sometime
>last month someone asked me when a group here was created.  I think it
>was alt.folklore.computers.  Well, active.times told me it was created
>at 628900369.  Using the getdate approach I'd have to make a couple of
>guesses to narrow it down a little and even then I'd have to spend
>some extra time if I wanted to make it really accurate.  So I just
>threw this trivial excuse for a programme in $NEWSBIN/maint/undate
>and have found it handy when looking at a couple of times stored by C
>News. 

What's wrong with $NEWSBIN/ctime?
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