not strange; misunderstood :)
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> Skip, You have a very strange sense of humour.
>
> At the first stroke it will be ten thrree & 40 seconds.
> At the first stroke it will be ten thrree & 50 seconds.
> At the first stroke it will be ten four. Precisely.
>
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:10:57 PDT Skip Tavakkolian
> <skip.tavakkol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> inspired me to write discotime:
>>
>> % cat discotime.go
>> // print the number of seconds from the dawn of Disco until the date
>> in the argument
>> package main
>>
>> import (
>> "fmt"
>> "os"
>> "time"
>> )
>>
>> func main() {
>> for _, s := range os.Args[1:] {
>> d, err := time.Parse(time.UnixDate, s)
>> if err != nil {
>> panic(err)
>> }
>> fmt.Println(d.Unix())
>> }
>> }
>> % ./discotime 'Tue Aug 16 17:03:52 CDT 1977'
>> 240599032
>>
>> to make a hammertime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Can't_Touch_This)
>> you can subtract 1990 from parsed date instead.
>>
>> -Skip
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:10:56 EDT erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wro
>> te:
>> >> > Strftime is a red herring (sorry), I can use and "date" | getline
>> >> > to generate pretty much any date string I need.
>> >> >
>> >> > The issue is more going the other way. tm2sec in awk is quite complex
>> >> > and hids many pitfalls if you want to do it correctly.
>> >> >
>> >> > My problem is parsing logfiles which contain dates in the form
>> >> > of date(1) / ctime(2).
>> >> >
>> >> > I want to graph stuff over time and so I want a monotonically incrementi
>> ng
>> >> > number (secs sinc 1/1/70 would be ideal). I have coded this in awk but
>> >> > for one year leap years break - though not by much.
>> >>
>> >> if the hair is just leap years, the algorithm used by /sys/src/libc/9sys/c
>> tim
>> >> e.c
>> >> is pretty attractive. the idea is to just loop through the years between
>> giv
>> >> en
>> >> and 1970, and add a day for each leap year encountered. should be easy
>> >> to do in awk.
>> >
>> > plan9 doesn't deal with leap seconds, right? There've been 35
>> > leap seconds since 1972 (International Atomic Time is 35
>> > seconds ahead of GMT). Though this probably doesn't matter
>> > for timestamps in log files.
>> >
>>
>
