From: "John P. Looney" <john@hosting365.ie>
To: ilug <ILug@linux.ie>
Organization: Hosting 365
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Date: 25 Aug 2003 11:38:20 +0100
Subject: [ILUG] tip of the day..epoch to date


 When dealing with wierd tools like qmail, most of the dates in logs are
in epochtime (seconds from 1970).

 So, to change the format easily, you can run;

function epoch ()
{
    date -d "1970-01-01 $1 sec" +"%Y-%m-%d %T %z"
}

 Then, you can run

midir [0]  epoch 1030981290
2002-09-02 15:41:30 +0100

 yay. No need to resort to a perl one liner.

John