On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:44:47PM +0800, Sherwin Daganato wrote: > (CC:ed ph-perl) > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:16:10AM -0500, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > > > > 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.
err! it _days_ since Jan 1 1970 not seconds. sorry. > another solution (besides the one you posted earlier) is to use perl's > locatime function. > ex. > > $ perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1073867006' should be perl -le 'print scalar localtime 12429 * 60 * 60 * 24' where 12429 is days since Jan 1 1970 -- $_=q:; # SHERWIN # 70;72;69;6e;74;20; 27;4a;75;73;74;20; 61;6e;6f;74;68;65; 72;20;50;65;72;6c; 20;6e;6f;76;69;63; 65;27;:;;s=~?(..); ?=pack q$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]
