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From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP status files and wierd dates.
Message-ID: <803@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 90 04:57:08 GMT
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Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
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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

The date is the internal format, which is defined as the number of seconds
since January 1, 1970. (Reportedly day 0, year 0, of the age of Unix.)

All Unix dates are maintained in this format, for some reason; in things
like ls you see a converted date.

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Gary Heston System Mismanager and technoflunky uunet!sci34hub!gary or
My opinions, not theirs.  SCI Systems, Inc.     gary@sci34hub.sci.com
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