Stardates

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Here’s a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of
“stardates”: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC,
aka the Unix epoch.

***@theon:~> bc <<<"scale = 1; $(date +%s) / 86400"
19769.9

At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

[vallor]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:17:12 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Here’s a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of
“stardates”: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC,
aka the Unix epoch.
19769.9
At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

"No. of days since the Epoch" is also used in
(some?) /etc/shadow files to indicate
when a password expires, as well as
when it was last set.

[Kenny McCormack]

Heres a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of
stardates: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC,
aka the Unix epoch.
19769.9
At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

Nifty. You could also do (this is more typing, but seems cleaner to me):

$ gawk 'BEGIN { printf "%.1f\n",systime()/86400 }'

[candycanearter07]

Post by Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Here’s a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of
“stardates”: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC,
aka the Unix epoch.
19769.9
At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

As a nerd, I'm stealing this :) cant wait to make my .bashrc more bloated!

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Post by candycanearter07
As a nerd, I'm stealing this :) cant wait to make my .bashrc more bloated!

Heh. ;)

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