[PLUG] Making sense of UNIX time_t ("epoch seconds")

[Matthew Rosewarne <mukidohime@case.edu>]

Some UNIX programs store time in what are called "epoch seconds", meaning the 
number of seconds since 00:00:00 (12 midnight) on January 1, 1970.  While I'm 
sure some of you can tell time this way, I personally cannot, so I needed to 
find a way to covert this big number into an actual date.  After wading 
through a number of online converters and perl scripts, I found a good way to 
do it with plan old /bin/date:

date -d "1970-01-01 $TIMESTAMP sec"

So for example, if you entered:

	date -d "1970-01-01 1184521826 sec"

you would get:

	Sun Jul 15 18:50:26 EDT 2007

Hopefully someone else will find this useful.

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