Author: Tony Whitmore Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] whatever happened to Unix
time? (Hardy 8.04)
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:20:22 +0100, "Victor Churchill"
<victorchurchill@???> wrote: > 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.
Just to clarify UTC is not UNIX time, but Coordinated Universal Time.
Essentially it replaces GMT.
