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From: crissl@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP status files and wierd dates.
Message-ID: <1022@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl>
Date: 14 Nov 90 12:41:04 GMT
References: <736@dynasys.UUCP> <554@6sceng.UUCP> <1990Nov12.161416.20549@mccc.uucp> <16754@teda.UUCP>
Organization: Leiden University, the Netherlands.
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In <16754@teda.UUCP> ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai) writes:

>In article <1990Nov12.161416.20549@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>-In article <554@6sceng.UUCP> blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>-=In article <736@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>-=|0 0 658135267 0 SUCCESSFUL rutgers
>-=|    ^^^^^^^^^
>-=Huh?  It's Nov  8 23:21:07 1990, plus or minus time zone differences.
>-Could you explain how you got Nov 8 23:21:07 1990 out of 658135267???  Thanks.
>(We are running on Eastern Standard Time here)

>main()
>{
>  long l = 658135267; puts(ctime(&l)); 
>}
>Fri Nov  9 07:21:07 1990
>-- 
>\|/  Michael L. Ardai   Teradyne EDA East
>--- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>/|\  ...!sun!teda!ardai (preferred)  or ardai@bu-pub.bu.edu

I've got a simple program for this:

$ secdate 658135267
 658135267 = Fri Nov  9 07:21:07 1990 GMT
	   = Fri Nov  9 08:21:07 1990 MET 

It also recognizes DST if applicable.
If anyone is interested, I'll post it to comp.sources.misc or alt.sources.

Stefan.

| Stefan M. Linnemann, a.k.a. crissl@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl            |
|                                                                    |
  Life is like the odd bit of string: it should be long enough to do  
  Something Extremely Useful with it, but for all of the really neat  
| things we think of, it's just too short.                           |
| -- Me, 1990, as far as I know; correct me if I'm wrong.            |