[sf-lug] unix time conversion

[Alex Kleider]

--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> Note that 1969 (well, 1970, but 1969 in US timezones) and
> 2038 are 
> respectively the beginning and the end of time_t 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time>.
> 
> -- Asheesh.
> 

I followed up on your wiki reference and would like to know how to 
convert Unix time -893,400,000 into a date I can understand.
date -d'-893400000'
doesn't work on my system.

perl -e “require ‘ctime.pl’; print &ctime($EPOCH);”
was suggested in one of the links but I've no idea where to stick the negative number.

can python do this for us?