Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-24 Thread mlh
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:57:50PM +1100, Michael Knight wrote: > Does this work as expected? When I run it I get: > > $ date --date '1081207440 seconds' > date: invalid date `1081207440 seconds' > > and > > $ date --date '10 seconds' > Thu Nov 25 21:42:30 EST 2004 > > It seems the seconds

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-24 Thread Voytek
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> You can also use the GNU date command: >> >> date --date '1081207440 seconds' > > Does this work as expected? When I run it I get: thanks, everyone, for the solutions, most worked, except the above one: # TZ=AEST python -c "import time; print time.ctime(108120

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can also use the GNU date command: > > date --date '1081207440 seconds' Does this work as expected? When I run it I get: $ date --date '1081207440 seconds' date: invalid date `1081207440 seconds' and $ date --date '10 seconds' Thu Nov 25 21:42:30 EST 20

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Benno
On Wed Nov 24, 2004 at 17:32:51 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:41:17PM +1100, Benno wrote: >> >> TZ=US/Pacific python -c "import time; print time.ctime(1081207440)" >> ^ > >You can also use the GNU date command: > > date --date '1081207440 seconds'

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread mlh
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:41:17PM +1100, Benno wrote: > > TZ=US/Pacific python -c "import time; print time.ctime(1081207440)" > ^ You can also use the GNU date command: date --date '1081207440 seconds' Prepend with a TZ setting if you so desire. Matt PS. perl: something

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Benno
On Wed Nov 24, 2004 at 13:37:32 +1100, Michael Knight wrote: >Voytek wrote: >> is there some command line tool to do it for me (not inside MySQL) ? >> >> basically, I'm looking at some database dump, and, I need to find out what >> was the date on ad hoc basis > >In addition to Benno's idea there

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Knight
Voytek wrote: > is there some command line tool to do it for me (not inside MySQL) ? > > basically, I'm looking at some database dump, and, I need to find out what > was the date on ad hoc basis In addition to Benno's idea there are also some web sites that provide the feature that also let you c

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Benno
On Wed Nov 24, 2004 at 13:29:11 +1100, Voytek wrote: > > >> Hi Voytek, >> Voytek Eymont wrote: > >> Yes, that's a Unix timestamp (number of seconds from January 1, 1970). >> In MySQL you can easily convert these to a readable date using its >> FROM_UNIXTIME function, which you can read more about h

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Voytek
> Hi Voytek, > Voytek Eymont wrote: > Yes, that's a Unix timestamp (number of seconds from January 1, 1970). > In MySQL you can easily convert these to a readable date using its > FROM_UNIXTIME function, which you can read more about here: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Date_and_time_func

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: >I'm looking at some date/time values in an MySQL tables that are >represented like: >1076022093 1076020027 1081207440 >are these... the *nix seconds things ? They sure look like it! As far as I know, MySQL stores dates as integers, by converting

Re: [SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Knight
Hi Voytek, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I'm looking at some date/time values in an MySQL tables that are > represented like: > 1076022093 1076020027 1081207440 > are these... the *nix seconds things ? > > how can I interactively convert a single value to human readable format ? Yes, that's a Unix time

[SLUG] date/time calculation from MySQL seconds ? to human readable

2004-11-23 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm looking at some date/time values in an MySQL tables that are represented like: 1076022093 1076020027 1081207440 are these... the *nix seconds things ? how can I interactively convert a single value to human readable format ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http: