> On Apr 12, 2021, at 5:00 PM, Christopher Schultz 
> <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> 
> Chris,
> 
> On 4/12/21 12:50, Chris Cheshire wrote:
>>>> On Apr 9, 2021, at 3:02 PM, Chris Cheshire <yahoono...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My googlefu is failing me here.
>>> I am trying to figure out some anomalous database connection behavior in my 
>>> tomcat web app. I have enabled JMX/RMI and have visualvm running on my 
>>> local machine.
>>> I found the ability to monitor the active connections as a live chart, and 
>>> it has an export data function. This export creates a csv with what is 
>>> supposed to be a time stamp and a count but the time stamp is in a 5.6 
>>> format. I have never seen this before. How do I convert this into something 
>>> normal - millis since epoch or even a human readable ISO format?
>>> Example
>>> 44295.607552
>>> Chris
>> When all else fails ... RTFS
>> So it’s the number of days since 1900.  Why? Because Excel (and Lotus 1-2-3)
> 
> Well... they chose to use days-since-epoch and chose a different epoch than 
> you did. Since it's all arbitrary and relative, why is yours better than 
> theirs?

Because it doesn’t include a kludgy bug fix for a broken assumption about leap 
years and 1900 ;)

In any case, yes it’s just a different epoch. In 20+ years of writing software 
I have never come across it and was completely baffled at how to make sense of 
it and my googlefu failed me.




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