[plug] Translating Unix time stamps into useable dates

[Trevor Phillips]

Michael Hunt wrote:
> 
> Does antyone know of a formula that I can use to translate unix time stamps
> like 923056282 into a useable date. I gater that this should be fairly
> simple as it is just a seconds count from January the 1st 1970. The thing
> that I am looking for is how to take into account leap years etc where the
> number of hours, minutes, seconds is not the same for other years.  Is there
> an inbuilt utilty for U*nix that can do this for me ?

I know Perl has a function to do it, so you could do something like:
   perl -e 'print localtime(923056282)."\n";'

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