Time convertions

On Commandline:
perl -e 'print scalar localtime(shift),"\n"' 1224687639;
Wed Oct 22 16:00:39 2008

In a script
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Date to timestamp (date2stamp.pl)
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time);
printf "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;
---
>date2stamp.pl
2008-10-26 23:43:33


To timestamp using Awk:
strftime("%Y-%m-%d %X", 1224687639)

eg
awk -F, '{OFS=","; print "\""$1"\"", strftime("%Y-%m-%d %X", substr($2,1,10))"."substr($2,11), $3, $4, $5, 0}'

The vaguaries of 64 bit OSes

A change of job and a change of laptop!

T61 4GB RAM
So I begin with Ubuntu 34 bit, this works fine but doesn't see all the Memory, of course. but it gets me going for a few days while i prove i can do the job!


So an 'upgrade' to the 64 bit version!
Skype don't do a 64 bit version so heaps of downloading of libraries and that is back to running.
wireless networking seems to drop out after installing the security updates, and a few other things are unuseable :(

Now trying SuSE, now on '5 hours later' on the 5th attempt!

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