timestamp output on rnds stats output, GRRR!

[Mark Andrews]

In message <alpine.LRH.2.00.0809181335450.13534 at rh-colby0.colby.edu>, "Jeff A.
 Earickson" writes:
> 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
> 

	Because you can do math on seconds easily.  Also there are
	lots of way to convert seconds into a human readable format.
	To add to the list already in this thread.

		date -r <value>

	Addionally the reverse conversion can be ambigious.

	EST is both "Eastern Standard Time" and "Eastern Summer Time"
	in some parts of the world.

	Mark
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