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;;;
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