Converting Unix time stamp to a date format.

[Eric Andresen]

Yeah, that was a typo, oops =)

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:14, George Toft wrote:
> Eric Andresen wrote:
> > 
> > If by unix timestamp you mean the plethora digits in a single number, it
> > is simply a counting of seconds from Jan 1st 1979 00:00
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:48, Carl Parrish wrote:
> > > Does anyone know where I can find the formula for converting a timestamp
> > > to a date format? I can't use any of the functions I typically would. I
> > > get the timestamp in an xml format. So far I can't find a xslt formula
> > > but I can hack one up in mozilla if I can figure out how.
> > >
> > --
> > --Eric Andresen
> >   ndiin@asu.edu
> > 
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> 
> I believe that's 1970, not 1979.  See
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/epoch.html (note the slight
> at the end by ESR).
> 
> George
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