Warnes, Jason SDH wrote: > This is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC is actually the French acromyn for > this). It is the number of time in seconds that has expired since the > epoch, which was defined as January 1st, 1970 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). If > you're a Windows user you've probably nevery been exposed to the epoch > thing. But if you're a UNIX user this is probably pretty familiar stuff.
And for completeness: The `formula' isn't simple but perl knows about it: perl -e 'print time' (or: perl -e 'print time."\n"' for pretty formatting) and for gnu users: date +%s cheers, -- __________________________________________________________________ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ | work private | | My employer is capable of speaking therefore I speak only for myself | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Technical questions sent directly to me will be nuked. Use the list. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://faq.mrtg.org/ | | http://rrdtool.eu.org --> tutorial | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
