On 16 Apr 2001, at 12:37, Peter Samuel wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Dean Staff wrote:
>
> > On 16 Apr 2001, at 11:56, Peter Samuel wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Dean Staff wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know if and how you can change the date stamp in the
> > > > /var/log/qmail log files from the cryptic stardate format to the
> > > > same format used my /var/log/maillog ?
> > >
> > > It's not that cryptic. It's the number of seconds since midnight,
> > > Jan 1, 1970 GMT. We are currently at
> > >
> > > 987436586
> >
> > I did know know what it, but you see, I'm one of the few people that
> > remember time "before" Jan 1 1970. :-)
>
> So do I, but if you look at the history of Unix, 1970 was around the
> time Messrs Thompson, Ritchie etal stripped down Multics and created
> Unix.
>
> 1980 (the epoch time used by the same library call in MS-DOS) was
> around the time of birth of the "IBM Personal Computer".
Thank you for the history lesson.
>
> PS Is your software Y2038 ready :)
Well I certainly hope my mail servers are...after all I am running e-
smith Besides, seeing as I do remember time before 1970, by the time
2038 rolls around I doubt I'll even care... ;-)
Dean
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