thanks for all the replies in fact on this occasion this page gave me the conversion I needed:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:28:09 +1200 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > How do I turn a unix date (like seconds since sometime in the past I > > think) to something human readable? > > The date command is not a general "date formatting" program, > unfortunately. You'll need something else :- > > > the date string is like 1088527745 > $ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1088527745)."\n"' > Wed Jun 30 04:49:05 2004 > > -jim -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
