[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
Quoting John Hansen <whitover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Can this please be explained to an OAP who cannot work it out. > > I make it: 23/31/30/13/02/2009. How that equates with 1234567890 eludes me. UNIX (and unix-related Operating systems such as Linux) count time in seconds from midnight January 1st 1970 (The UNIX epoch). At 23:30:31 tonight, it will have been 1234567890 seconds since the epoch. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html