I agree, but for those of us here at Tucows/OpenSRS that have to parse log
files manually for many purposes, it's MUCH easier to sort and search by
human readable time.
I'll bring up to discussion the p-[oossibility of providing both formats
:)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 Jul 2000, Michael Shields wrote:
> > Many of us cannot convert from Unix time to human readable time on the fly
> > ;)
>
> Yes, but the code to convert from human-readable to machine-readable
> can be substantial, as is the code to convert from human-readable to
> human-readable-in-ISO-8601 or human-readable-in-localized-format.
> Converting from Unix format to any other is trivial given commonly
> available tools.
> --
> Shields.
>
