Bug#322261: popularity-contest: hints on translating time_t numbers to dates
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:25:05AM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.28 Severity: wishlist I was interested in converting the atime and ctime time_t integers found in my popularity contest reports into a human-readable date. I eventually ran across the ctime() function in Python's time module which did the conversion I wanted, but I wasn't able to find any simple command line utility that was able to convert in that direction. (For example, the date command's %s format directive will return the time_t integer for the date being displayed, but the --date= option doesn't seem to let me specify a date using the time_t integer.) IMHO, this should rather be reported as a wishlist to the date utility. You can use date -d $((`date +%s` - $DATE )) seconds ago For what it's worth, I eventually found that the Info documentation for date does contain a page of examples: info coreutiles examples of date That page suggests using the following syntax to do the time_t-to-readable conversion: date -d 1970-01-01 UTC 1139229934 seconds perl -e 'print scalar localtime '$DATE',\n' where $DATE is the the date you want to convert. Also good to know. Thanks. On Debian unstable, I just found you can do: % date -d @1139229934 Mon Feb 6 13:45:34 CET 2006 (but it does not work on sarge) Anyway I will add it to the FAQ. Thanks for the info. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#322261: popularity-contest: hints on translating time_t numbers to dates
tags 322261 pending quit On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:25:05AM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.28 Severity: wishlist I was interested in converting the atime and ctime time_t integers found in my popularity contest reports into a human-readable date. I eventually ran across the ctime() function in Python's time module which did the conversion I wanted, but I wasn't able to find any simple command line utility that was able to convert in that direction. (For example, the date command's %s format directive will return the time_t integer for the date being displayed, but the --date= option doesn't seem to let me specify a date using the time_t integer.) IMHO, this should rather be reported as a wishlist to the date utility. You can use date -d $((`date +%s` - $DATE )) seconds ago For what it's worth, I eventually found that the Info documentation for date does contain a page of examples: info coreutiles examples of date That page suggests using the following syntax to do the time_t-to-readable conversion: date -d 1970-01-01 UTC 1139229934 seconds perl -e 'print scalar localtime '$DATE',\n' where $DATE is the the date you want to convert. Also good to know. Thanks. OK, I have included this in the FAQ in the package and on the website. Thanks for providing a solution. The bug will be closed when the package will be uploaded. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#322261: popularity-contest: hints on translating time_t numbers to dates
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:14:24PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.28 Severity: wishlist I was interested in converting the atime and ctime time_t integers found in my popularity contest reports into a human-readable date. I eventually ran across the ctime() function in Python's time module which did the conversion I wanted, but I wasn't able to find any simple command line utility that was able to convert in that direction. (For example, the date command's %s format directive will return the time_t integer for the date being displayed, but the --date= option doesn't seem to let me specify a date using the time_t integer.) IMHO, this should rather be reported as a wishlist to the date utility. You can use date -d $((`date +%s` - $DATE )) seconds ago For what it's worth, I eventually found that the Info documentation for date does contain a page of examples: info coreutiles examples of date That page suggests using the following syntax to do the time_t-to-readable conversion: date -d 1970-01-01 UTC 1139229934 seconds perl -e 'print scalar localtime '$DATE',\n' where $DATE is the the date you want to convert. Also good to know. Thanks. Nathan Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#322261: popularity-contest: hints on translating time_t numbers to dates
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.28 Severity: wishlist I was interested in converting the atime and ctime time_t integers found in my popularity contest reports into a human-readable date. I eventually ran across the ctime() function in Python's time module which did the conversion I wanted, but I wasn't able to find any simple command line utility that was able to convert in that direction. (For example, the date command's %s format directive will return the time_t integer for the date being displayed, but the --date= option doesn't seem to let me specify a date using the time_t integer.) IMHO, this should rather be reported as a wishlist to the date utility. You can use date -d $((`date +%s` - $DATE )) seconds ago or perl -e 'print scalar localtime '$DATE',\n' where $DATE is the the date you want to convert. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#322261: popularity-contest: hints on translating time_t numbers to dates
Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.28 Severity: wishlist I was interested in converting the atime and ctime time_t integers found in my popularity contest reports into a human-readable date. I eventually ran across the ctime() function in Python's time module which did the conversion I wanted, but I wasn't able to find any simple command line utility that was able to convert in that direction. (For example, the date command's %s format directive will return the time_t integer for the date being displayed, but the --date= option doesn't seem to let me specify a date using the time_t integer.) Anyway, if anyone working on the popcon project has found some easy way(s) to convert these numbers, it might be worth mentioning it/them in the documentation somewhere (e.g. in the README along with the description of the atime and ctime fields, or in the FAQ as a new question). Thanks. Nathan Nathan Stratton Treadway - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 pgpl5g8AXvGqe.pgp Description: PGP signature
