Questions tagged [epoch-time]

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date +%s glitches

I have a strange issue I'm starting to troubleshoot and wondered if anyone would have any helpful tips. I have a cronjob executed every minute that executes a script and appends the output to a file on a filer. The job prints the current timestamp…
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Convert SELinux log date format from Epoch to Normal

When SELinux logs an event to the audit log on my CentOS 6 system, it's logging it in epoch time which makes for a real hassle when trying to troubleshoot. Is there any way to make it log these events using human readable date formats? I've looked…
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convert date time epoch in miliseconds to UTC human readable format

I am trying to convert date time in epoch to UTC human readable format, I have tried this and this gives me the result in CET but wrong result. perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1549950859468 / 1000) Tue Feb 12 06:54:19 2019 How should it be done in…
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Logstash: UNIX Epoch time not getting converted to readable format

I have setup an ELK stack and I am trying to parse squid log entries. And I am having a problem trying to convert the following UNIX/Epoc time as 1442469455.757 to a human readable format. While trouble shooting I get the following error: Received…
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What was linux/unix time standard before inventing epoch?

As in the title, I was looking for, but hadn't found. How were time stored and processed before epoch standardizing in 2000?
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