timestamp output on rnds stats output, GRRR!

[Jeff Lightner]

If you don't have GNU Date you can convert epoch with Perl:

This little script can be used to do it:

epoch_converter.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
print scalar localtime $ARGV[0];
print "\n"

# alternate all in one line command would be:
# perl -e 'print scalar localtime $ARGV[0];print "\n"' <epoch>
# where epoch is the epoch number of seconds input
# Simple script - shows epoch (number of seconds) for current date/time
#
perl -e 'printf "\n", printf %d, time();'
perl -e 'print time(),"\n";'

-Just run the command with the epoch number (e.g. epoch_converter.pl
1221762600)   
-Of course it doesn't need to be named epoch_converter - which is a bit
much to type every time.
-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Hays, Ken
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:33 PM
To: Jeff A. Earickson
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: timestamp output on rnds stats output, GRRR!

If you are fortunate, your unix will have GNU date. If you have 
1221762600 epoch seconds, try

date -d '1970-01-01 Z 1221762600 seconds'
 for time zone relative display. Add the -u flag for UTC display.

Good luck, Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:47 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: timestamp output on rnds stats output, GRRR!

Yo Bind Developers,

Using Bind 9.5.0-P2.  Why, oh why, does "rndc stats" give timestamp
information in UNIX epoch seconds??!!  Why can't ns_stats_dump() in
bin/named/statschannel.c do a call to localtime() or gmtime() and 
convert the UNIX epoch into a human-readable time?

Jeff Earickson
Colby College
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