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From: bob@rscsys.UUCP (Bob Celmer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP status files and wierd dates.
Summary: Duration of UNIX epoch
Message-ID: <54@rscsys.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 90 23:56:33 GMT
References: <736@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: bob@rscsys.UUCP (Bob Celmer)
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In article <736@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I was looking in the status files for UUCP connections and I was trying
>to figure out what date was used to calculate the below number:
>
>0 0 658135267 0 SUCCESSFUL rutgers
>    ^^^^^^^^^
>
>I assume that this is the date of the last connection.  If this assumption
>is incorrect, what is this number?  If it is correct, I have a few more
>questions.  Why is such an old date used?  Why not just use the beginning
>of the year?  And what is the date that is being used?  Any ideas?

I believe that number represents the number of seconds that have elapsed
during the UNIX epoch, deemed to have begun at Midnight GMT on 1 January,
1970.  Try the following short piece of C code.


#include <stdio.h>

main()
{  long time();
   long *tloc;
   long big_num;

   big_num = time(tloc);
   printf("\nSeconds since 1 Jan 1970: %ld\n",big_num);
}


-- 
Bob Celmer
UUCP: {fedeva,chromc}!dynasys!rscsys!bob