actually it was more of a rhetorical question as i found the answer for
someone at the meeting last week (info date |examples|scroll to almost
the bottom)

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:31:52 +1300
Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 2004-10-19T14:12:00+1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> > now how to work out what date is represented by 1098079756 seconds
> > since 1.1.70
> 
> STFA ;-)
> 
> GNU Date:
> $ date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 1098079756 seconds'
> 
> BSD Date:
> $ date -r 1098079756
> 
> Perl:
> $ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1098079756)'
> 
> Cheers,
> -mjg
> -- 
> Matthew Gregan                     |/
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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