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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Common uses for Unix Post 302183885 by wempy on Thursday 10th of April 2008 04:55:22 AM
Old 04-10-2008
ahh, it has been a long time since I had to do homework, makes one kind of misty eyed for the days when I had all my own teeth and hair.

One use, though admittedly not very common, would be to monitor the amount of water your horse drinks in the field. The technical challenges that poses will not be met with windows, unless you could provide an environmentally secure, high power enclosure for the machine.

What about the kippers I can hear you asking already, well, as far as I know horses are allergic to smoked herring so make sure you uninstall GNU kipper before you deploy.
 

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DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)

NAME
DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix - Convert DateTimes to/from Unix epoch seconds SYNOPSIS
use DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix; my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->parse_datetime( 1051488000 ); # 2003-04-28T00:00:00 DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->format_datetime($dt); # 1051488000 my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->new(); my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 ); $formatter->format_datetime($dt2); DESCRIPTION
This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. METHODS
Most of the methods are the same as those in DateTime::Format::Epoch. The only difference is the constructor. o new() Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It has no parameters. SUPPORT
Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details. AUTHOR
Eugene van der Pijll <pijll@gmx.net> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003 Eugene van der Pijll. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
DateTime datetime@perl.org mailing list perl v5.10.1 2007-12-03 DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)
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