perl -le 'print scalar localtime(1234567890)' # (Happy Birthday, UNIX)

Posted by Joel Johnson, February 10, 2009 9:43 AM | permalink

UNIX turns 1234567890 seconds old Friday, February 13th, 2009 at 18:31:30. (At least on my system.)

Try also: python -c 'import time;print(time.asctime(time.localtime(1234567890)))' or date -r 1234567890 to get your local equiv.

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#1 posted by Joel Johnson

, February 10, 2009 10:06 AM

Ha, I give up. I cannot never get ASCII art to format correctly.

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#2 posted by HunterZ , February 10, 2009 10:13 AM

You have to use a pre-formatted text tag of some kind, if that's even supported by BoingBoing's blog software. Even then it may eat leading spaces and such.

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#3 posted by dculberson , February 10, 2009 10:35 AM

One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

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#4 posted by dculberson , February 10, 2009 10:41 AM

Joel, instead of blockquote try the pre and /pre tags..

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Nope.. oh well. It was worth a shot.

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#5 posted by HunterZ , February 10, 2009 1:06 PM

@#4: No, that's still using a variable-width font :(

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#6 posted by dculberson , February 10, 2009 1:45 PM

The pre tag isn't supposed to use variable pitch, but it looks like that tag isn't supported in the comments here.

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#7 posted by arkizzle , February 11, 2009 9:31 AM

Joel, I've been crying over the lack of a monospaced font option, down here in the comments section for ages!

P'raps if you had a word with the BB elves (or is that goblins?) to see if there is any chance.. surely it's just a miniscule CSS change, no? :)

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#8 posted by Anonymous , February 11, 2009 2:11 PM

date +"%s"

works on my AIX box.

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#9 posted by michaelc , February 12, 2009 12:06 AM

If you've got the ruby language installed,

ruby -e 'puts Time.at(1234567890)'

should also work if you type it at a command prompt. Ruby is available by default in OSX.

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#10 posted by Anonymous , February 12, 2009 8:02 AM

SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-02-13 17:31:3090');
on an old xp pro running 4.0.17-nt MySQL

Gives 1234567890