(CC:ed ph-perl) On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > On Sunday 15 December 2002 11:45 pm, Ina Patricia Lopez wrote: > > what command i can use to convert the last change field (/etc/shadow) > > to date format? > > man shadow (on mandrake, not sure if you have that on your installation) > says that the last password change field is the number of days since > 1Jan1970 since the password was changed. so if it is "1", then > the password was last changed on 2 Jan 1970.
it's called epoch seconds. > > i don't know what the quick solution would be offhand. another solution (besides the one you posted earlier) is to use perl's locatime function. ex. $ perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1073867006' this will print Mon Dec 16 14:40:22 2002 HTH -- $_=q:; # SHERWIN # 70;72;69;6e;74;20; 27;4a;75;73;74;20; 61;6e;6f;74;68;65; 72;20;50;65;72;6c; 20;6e;6f;76;69;63; 65;27;:;;s=~?(..); ?=pack q$C$,hex$1; ;;;=egg;;;;eval;;; _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
