Re: [gentoo-user] Time format in log files

[Mick]

On Sunday 27 January 2008, Greg Bowser wrote:
> Hi,
> Those dates are in a format called "unix timestamps", which represent
> the number of seconds since the unix epoch (Jaunuary 1st, 1970). You
> can get the current unix timestamp via the date command (date +%s). As
> far as any command-line utility to convert them,I leave that to
> Google.  However, most programming languages provide functions to
> convert between timestamp formats.

Thanks Greg,

It's amazing what one can dig out from Google:

perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e' /var/log/<logfile_name>

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Regards,
Mick