vbdude wrote: > > I'm new to this group so please be gentle... > > I have two quick questions, the first being the most important. > > QUESTION 1: > When I look at the contents of the "history.dat" file created by > Netscape 6.1, it appears to be in RDF format which I am guessing is a > Mozilla flavour of XML. What interests me is Netscape's > "LastVisitDate" and "FirstVisitDate" values stored for visited > websites. It seems that this RDF language translates the dates/times > into a 16-digit number. Here is an example of a "fresh" history.dat > file with only 1 visited link. The date and time should correspond to > "23-Oct-2001 06:40 AM" OR "23-Oct-2001 02:40 AM" depending on which > time zone created the entry. > > Here is my example. I have numbered each line for easy reference: > > 1 -- // <!-- <mdb:mork:z v="1.4"/> --> > 2 -- < <(a=c)> // (f=iso-8859-1) > 3 -- (80=ns:history:db:row:scope:history:all) > 4 -- (81=ns:history:db:table:kind:history)(82=URL)(83=Referrer) > 5 -- (84=LastVisitDate)(85=FirstVisitDate)(86=VisitCount)(87=Name) > 6 -- (88=Hostname)> > 7 -- > 8 -- <(13B=http://www.netscape.com/)(13C=1003833608578000)(13D=www.netscape.com) > 9 -- (13E=N$00e$00w$00 $00P$00a$00g$00e$00 $001$00)> > 0 -- {1:^80 {(k^81:c)(s=9)} > A -- [7(^82^13B)(^84^13C)(^85^13C)(^88^13D)(^87^13E)]} > > As you can see on line 5, the column values 84 and 85 are assigned to > "LastVisitDate" and "FirstVisitDate" respectively. Then on line 8, > there is an entry for the date/time that was recorded for the visit > (13C). This 13C value corresponds to line A. Based on the ^84^13C > and ^85^13C notations, I draw the conclusion that these are both > refering to 13C which is the "date/time". > > Now, can someone please tell me what "1003833608578000" is suppose to > represent? I have chequed everything including: www.w3.org, > www.mozilla.org and even www.iso.ch with no answers. > > QUESTION 2: > What is the word "Mork" all about? I've looked everywhere for a > definition or some kind of support documentation. Everyone uses this > word or terminology freely but no one even mentions what it is? I'm > guessing that it's some sort of database specification for use in XML > and RDF documents. Anyone? > > Hope that someone out there has that answer for question #1 because I > have work that relates specifically to interpreting this data. Thanks > in advance! > > John
More than likely it's just the number of seconds elapsed since 12:00 am, January 1st, 1970 GMT (commonly known as Unix time). I'm sure you can find a tool out there to convert it to actual time. Some people have even written their own converter in perl! Hopefully someone will chime in with a more complete answer for you. :-) Justin H. -- Since when has deniability EVER been plausible?
