freebsd stable - Jun 2003 - How can convert user expired days in human readable ?

Hello all,

On my system, some users have expire day user settings. I write a 
(python) script
then parse the: 7.th selection in the master.passwd

blabla:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:1064005200:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx

How can I conver the number like 1064005200 to human readable date format ?
Or, there is a way to collect the information from a command interactively ?

Regards,

Murat Ustuntas

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:36, Murat USTUNTAS wrote:
> How can I conver the number like 1064005200 to human readable date format ?
> Or, there is a way to collect the information from a command interactively
?
date -r 1064005200

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On 2003-06-20 at 14:36:06 Murat USTUNTAS wrote:
> How can I conver the number like 1064005200 to human readable date
> format ?
Try:

  date -r 1064005200

And read the date(1) manpage for more information.
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Thank you so much... I just adding the command ,
   everything in fine.
   Regards
   Murat Ustuntas
   Sergey Akifyev wrote:

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:36, Murat USTUNTAS wrote:
  

How can I conver the number like 1064005200 to human readable date format ?
Or, there is a way to collect the information from a command interactively ?
    

date -r 1064005200

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:36:06PM +0300, Murat USTUNTAS wrote:
> On my system, some users have expire day user settings. I write a 
> (python) script
> then parse the: 7.th selection in the master.passwd
> 
> blabla:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:1064005200:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
> 
> How can I conver the number like 1064005200 to human readable date format ?
> Or, there is a way to collect the information from a command interactively
?
That date is given as the number of seconds since the epoch (1 Jan
1970, 00:00 UTC), which is the standard Unix time_t internal time/date
representation.  You can convert it into human readable format by:

    % date -r 1064005200
    Fri Sep 19 22:00:00 BST 2003 

Or from within Python, you should have access to strftime(3) or
equivalent which will convert a time_t into a human-readable
time/date.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Within the master.passwd, the time is stored in seconds since the Epoch, 
and there are standard C and POSIX functions for converting this into 
any format you want.  I don't know much about python, but within Perl 
you can use strftime() to convert the date.  You would do something 
similar to:

strftime("%D", localtime($unixtime))

where $unixtime is assigned to the value you pulled from the 
master.passwd file.

The %D simply returns a MM/DD/YY format date.

Check to see if Python has similar functions... they are POSIX compliant.

Murat USTUNTAS wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> On my system, some users have expire day user settings. I write a 
> (python) script
> then parse the: 7.th selection in the master.passwd
>
> blabla:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:1064005200:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
>
> How can I conver the number like 1064005200 to human readable date 
> format ?
> Or, there is a way to collect the information from a command 
> interactively ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Murat Ustuntas
>
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Or for a way that works on all platforms with perl and not just FreeBSD 
platforms with date -r):

	perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1064005200),"\n"'