omshell "starts", "ends"

[Craig]

Ah... should have tried that...

Any idea what the following means:
starts = "C9VF"

Thanx for your help!


John Hascall wrote:
>> The man page for omshell says that both starts and ends are in hex and 
>> should represent the start and end time of the lease.
>>
>> I tried converting  the number to decimal and then to a date... it 
>> wasn't even close.
>>
>> ends = 03:e2:56:46
>> starts = "C9VF"
>>
>> $ ./cvtHex.pl 03:e2:56:46
>> Converting 03e25646...
>> dec = 65164870
>>          Mon Jan 24 21:21:10 1972
> 
>   You've got the bytes backwards
> 
>    0x4656E203 == 1180099075
> 
>   Or about 10 hours from now.
> 
> John
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