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"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. > > -- > Greg A. Woods > > +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]> Hmmm... How exactly does one use a MySQL builtin inside an M$ SQL database? Owen -- *********************************************************************** "Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?" - Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc., from an April 1997 interview in Upside Magazine *********************************************************************** "One World, One Web, One Program." - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein F�hrer" - Adolf Hitler
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