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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