04-01-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by
rhfrommn
Unless you're working for a very large company which has on-site staff around the clock, you are working in a sense all the time since you can always be paged or called when there is a problem. Also, you will almost certainly be doing tons of middle-of-the-night and weekend work since you can't work on production servers during business hours. If you are interested in steady hours with little overtime Unix is NOT for you.
Salary varies widely. When I started about 10 years ago entry level unix admin jobs were in the 50-70k range. It is a fairly well-paying field and finding jobs is not terribly hard once you're established and recruiters/managers/other admins in your city know you.
Aw man... I didn't even think about the hours too much. I just assumed it would be regular working hours. I definitely want steady working hours though. I really would like to do something IT related though and Unix System Administration was like the closest I could find to what I want to do. Does anyone know any jobs similar I might be interested in with steady regular working hours? I was looking into web development too and that's the next closest thing to what I'm looking to do.
Thanks for the info!
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TIMETRANS(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation TIMETRANS(1p)
NAME
timetrans - Converts time into time
SYNOPSIS
timetrans [units-options] [-count]
DESCRIPTION
timetrans converts time from one type of unit to another. If any of the units options are specified, then timetrans will convert those
time units into the number of seconds to which they add up. If given the count option, timetrans will convert that number of seconds into
the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. The converted result is printed out. Units options cannot be
specified in the same execution as the count option, and vice versa.
timetrans is intended for use with DNSSEC-Tools, for calculating a zone's expiration time.
OPTIONS
Units Options
The converted value of each unit is totaled and a single result printed.
-seconds seconds
Count of seconds to convert to seconds.
-minutes minutes
Count of minutes to convert to seconds.
-hours hours
Count of hours to convert to seconds.
-days days
Count of days to convert to seconds.
-weeks weeks
Count of weeks to convert to seconds.
Count Option
The specified seconds count is converted to the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.
-count seconds
Count of seconds to convert to the appropriate set of units.
Other Options
timetrans has the following miscellaneous options.
-Version
Displays the version information for timetrans and the DNSSEC-Tools package.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Converting 5 days into seconds
$(42)> timetrans -days 5
432000
Example 2: Converting 2 weeks into seconds
$(43)> timetrans -w 2
1209600
Example 3: Converting 8 days and 8 hours into seconds
$(44)> timetrans -d 8 -hours 8
720000
Example 4: Converting 1 week, 1 day, and 8 hours into seconds
$(46)> timetrans -w 1 -days 1 -h 8
720000
Example 5: Converting 14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, and 8 seconds into seconds
$(47)> timetrans -w 14 -d 4 -h 21 -m 8 -s 8
8888888
Example 6: Converting 720000 seconds into time units
$(48)> timetrans -c 720000
1 week, 1 day, 8 hours
Example 7: Converting 1814421 seconds into time units
$(49)> timetrans -c 1814421
3 weeks, 21 seconds
Example 8: Converting 8888888 seconds into time units
$(50)> timetrans -c 8888888
14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, 8 seconds
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2004-2012 SPARTA, Inc. All rights reserved. See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.
AUTHOR
Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com
SEE ALSO
zonesigner(8)
Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::timetrans.pm(3)
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-21 TIMETRANS(1p)