On Sunday 27 January 2008, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 27 January 2008, Greg Bowser wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Those dates are in a format called "unix timestamps", which
> > represent the number of seconds since the unix epoch (Jaunuary 1st,
> > 1970). You can get the current unix timestamp via the date command
> > (date +%s). As far as any command-line utility to convert them,I
> > leave that to Google.  However, most programming languages provide
> > functions to convert between timestamp formats.
>
> Thanks Greg,
>
> It's amazing what one can dig out from Google:
>
> perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e' /var/log/<logfile_name>

I like this one too: 

# date -d @1200806556
Sun Jan 20 06:22:36 CET 2008
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