Unix Timestamp

Tue Oct 23 16:30:53 UTC 2001

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> 
> [ 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
> 
> 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....
> 
> > But perl works on all three. :-)
> 
> 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 hate
> perl.  It is the worst of all the bad interpreted languages.  Well maybe
> not as bad as VB....
> 
> 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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Hmmm... How exactly does one use a MySQL builtin inside an M$ SQL
database?

Owen

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