[H-GEN] Seconds since Epoch as ten decimal digits

[Tony Bilbrough]

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G'day Mark,
More pearls of wisdom, please!
Tony

Mark Suter wrote:
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> Folks,
> 
> As many of you know, most Unix variants store the number of
> seconds since the epoch.  The GNU version of "date" has an
> extension to display this value, as follows.
> 
>     $ date --help | grep %s ; date +%s
>       %s   seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)
>     991282474
> 
> When will this number need ten decimal digits to display?
> 
>     $ perl -le'print"".localtime(10**9)'
>     Sun Sep  9 11:46:40 2001
> 
> Unfortunately, this isn't a Humbug meeting :(
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
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