On 07/26/2010 07:24 PM, alberttresens wrote: > > Hi, thanks for the reply.
Alas, you didn't actually read it: > > But what i am more concerned about, as I am trying to correlate logs, is > what is the timestamp: > 1279620166 mean? > Is it seconds since the epoch or the ISO time in seconds? > > Any idea? > > Thanks a lot!! > [...] >>> I would like to know the meaning of this number. Is it in seconds since >>> the epoch? >> >> Yes. You quoted the answer to your question in the same e-mail. fascinating. A little side note: >> atime is the simple one -- it is "access time", or when the file was >> last read. You should never rely on this, though: some file systems don't store this (I think) and many users/sysadmins actually disable this (mount -o noatime) for performance reasons. (Also, on an SSD, I imagine enabling atime, and with it many, many additional writes, could noticeably detriment disk lifetime) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
