Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:41:53AM +0100, torn5 wrote:
>>
>> This is going to be a faq...
>> I suppose the datetime is encoded (what format is that?) in that
>> long number after "at".
>
> Number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 midnight GMT. (Standard
> Unix-time format). It's hard for the kernel to decode it since it
> doesn't know what time-zone you are in, or what your local legislature
> has done vis-a-vis arbitrary and cabritious adjustments to the
> start/stop date of daylight savings time, etc.
>
> It's easy enough to decode it using perl:
>
> perl -e '$t = localtime(1289053677); print "$t\n"'
The "date" program can decode these values too:
date -d @1289053677
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