On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Malcolm Badley wrote:
> I am looking at my netcache log file which is being used by analog 4.1 > to produce a report file. > > The 1st column of the input log file is in the following format: > > 977279750.720 > > This is used to calculate Unix time but how can I translate it into a more meaningful time & date? >
It's the number of seconds since the beginning of 1970, GMT.
If you have a copy of GNU date (for example, if you have a Linux box), then date +%s will give you the current time in this format, which should help you work out other times.
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