[43694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unix Timestamp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Oct 23 12:31:50 2001
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:30:53 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.sj.ca.us>
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"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
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> [ On Monday, October 22, 2001 at 18:18:41 (-0500), Chris Adams wrote: ]=
> > Subject: Re: Unix Timestamp
> >
> > On Red Hat Linux 7.1:
> > $ date -r 1003723200
> > date: 1003723200: No such file or directory
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> The first two were kinda sad examples of the state of commercial Unix
> (unfortunately even SuSv2 lacks this now ancient feature!), but this
> last one (i.e. GNU date) surprises the heck out of me -- especially
> since there's not even an equivalent option with a different name....
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> > But perl works on all three. :-)
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> So does the gawk variant, and so would a silly one-line C program. No
> doubt python and ruby variants would be equally portable. I really hat=
e
> perl. It is the worst of all the bad interpreted languages. Well mayb=
e
> not as bad as VB....
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> But enough of this nonsense -- the best answer is the one from Michael
> Barrow to just use FROM_UNIXTIME() in the MySQL code directly.
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> --
> Greg A. Woods
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Hmmm... How exactly does one use a MySQL builtin inside an M$ SQL
database?
Owen
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