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Re: [LUG] Major Geekage...

 

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.
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