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.
:-)
Dean
>
> It is a much better format than
>
> Mon Apr 16 11:55:02 2001
>
> because you need to know the timezone (and the wierd daylight savings
> rule that may or may not apply) to do any comparisons between
> messages.
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