On 18-Sep-2008, at 13:47 , Jeff A. Earickson wrote: > Yo Bind Developers, > > Using Bind 9.5.0-P2. Why, oh why, does "rndc stats" give timestamp > information in UNIX epoch seconds??!! Why can't ns_stats_dump() in > bin/named/statschannel.c do a call to localtime() or gmtime() and > convert the UNIX epoch into a human-readable time?
As another user of BIND I would say, "because epoch seconds are more easily manipulated." If it dumped a human readable timestamp, then in order to manipulate that in some way I'd need to write or find some utility that could convert it. With epoch seconds, I can use that timestamp in any format I like with my own call to strftime().
