Re: [Hampshire] whatever happened to Unix time? (Hardy 8.04)

2008/6/10 Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???>:

> Hi,
> firstly, sorry I could not get to the meeting last weekend. Looks like
> you had a fun time.
>
> Now: I've just upgraded to U***** Hardy. I used to keep one instance
> of the 'clock' (not sure what its name was) on the panel showing
> regular time, and one showing what it used to call "Unix" time - i.e.
> the number of seconds since the start of The Epoch - which is
> currently
> victor@ss07:~/Desktop$ perl -e "print time,qq/\n/"
> 1213091387
> victor@ss07:~/Desktop$
>
> Now we use UTC in our logging applications and it's quite useful to
> have it in the panel for reference.
>
> According to the 'Help' for the clock applet it is still there:
>
> UNIX time
> Display the time in seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. Developers
> are the primary users of UNIX time.
>
> Have scanned the Ubuntu Forums but most issues aroound the clock are
> to do with time zones & synchronisation which are not my problem.
>
Maybe I'm being dense, but did you say what the problem is?

James