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Re: [LUG] Major Geekage...

 

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:26:59PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:56:56 +0000
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > OI! we're talking geekability here!
> > > No logic needed - perl much higher geek quotient than 'command line which is
> > > only there for running perl scripts'
> 
> True. ;-)
> 
> > > and if you used the same examples for date... as I saw they didnt work.
> 
> $ date -d @1234567890
> Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 GMT 2009

Ah, but the '@' syntax isn't portable. It works in GNU date, but not
BSD. ;)

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