Here’s a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of “stardates”: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC, aka the Unix epoch.

ldo@theon:~> bc <<<"scale = 1; $(date +%s) / 86400"
19769.9

At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:17:12 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<[email protected]d> wrote in <uqoqdo$25h4$[email protected]>:

Here’s a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of “stardates”: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970
UTC,
aka the Unix epoch.

ldo@theon:~> bc <<<"scale = 1; $(date +%s) / 86400"
19769.9

At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

"No. of days since the Epoch" is also used in
(some?) /etc/shadow files to indicate
when a password expires, as well as
when it was last set.

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In article <uqoqdo$25h4$[email protected]>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:

Heres a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of
stardates: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC,
aka the Unix epoch.

ldo@theon:~> bc <<<"scale = 1; $(date +%s) / 86400"
19769.9

At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

Nifty. You could also do (this is more typing, but seems cleaner to me):

$ gawk 'BEGIN { printf "%.1f\n",systime()/86400 }'

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:15:19 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:

"No. of days since the Epoch" is also used in (some?) /etc/shadow files
to indicate when a password expires, as well as when it was last set.

Yeah, but those are integers. Adding a decimal point makes it a bit more,
I don’t know ... stardatey.

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On 2/16/24 17:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Here’s a command that produces date/time numbers reminiscent of “stardates”: days (and fractions of a day) since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC, aka the Unix epoch.

ldo@theon:~> bc <<<"scale = 1; $(date +%s) / 86400"
19769.9

At one point I was using this for version numbers for my Android apps.

As a nerd, I'm stealing this :) cant wait to make my .bashrc more bloated!
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:31:03 -0600, candycanearter07 wrote:

As a nerd, I'm stealing this :) cant wait to make my .bashrc more bloated!

Heh. ;)

And I’ve never even met Captain Zlog ...

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