Charles Daminato wrote:
>
> I'll bring this up for discussion - ultimately the decision is not mine :)
>
> On 22 Jul 2000, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
>
> > So? You don't have to log the internal format anywhere. Convert it
> > to whatever when logging, but internal time (including at the protocol
> > level) should only be unix time (or something related, such as java
> > time or utime, et al).
20000723010101
Is both humanly decipherable and machine sortable and I use this below
in a shell to unmask unix timestamps...
alias ltime='perl -e '\''printf "%s\n", scalar localtime $ARGV[0]'\'''
--markc
