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TAI64NFRAC(1)			 User Commands			 TAI64NFRAC(1)

NAME
       tai64nfrac - Convert TAI64N timestamps to decimal seconds since epoch

SYNOPSIS
       tai64nfrac < input > output

DESCRIPTION
       Given  data with	TAI64N timestamps at the beginning of each line	as in-
       put (such as data generated by multilog), tai64nfrac will convert those
       times to	seconds	since epoch (with a  fractional	 part)	and  otherwise
       output  the  same  data.	  It's	intended  to  be used as a filter that
       changes the timestamp format at the beginning of	each line.

       tai64nfrac is primarily intended	to support using qmailanalog  to  ana-
       lyze  qmail logs	that are being written by multilog rather than to sys-
       log via splogger.

BUGS
       tai64nfrac makes	no attempt to handle leap seconds or to	handle TAI  to
       UTC  conversion	correctly.  It was written with	hard-coded adjustments
       for systems where the system clock is in	UTC and	no leap	 seconds  file
       is  present.   In that situation, software generating TAI64N timestamps
       will generate timestamps	with an	epoch 10 seconds different  than  UTC,
       which tai64nfrac	adjusts	for.

       This  is	 obviously not the correct approach, which would be to use the
       code and	algorithms in libtai.  It was just the expedient thing	to  do
       for my immediate	problem.

SEE ALSO
       See <http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/tai64nlocal.html> for documentation of
       tai64nlocal,  which  converts TAI64N timestamps to human-readable times
       in the local time zone.

       See <http://cr.yp.to/qmailanalog.html> for qmailanalog.

       The current version of this program is available	from its web  page  at
       <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/tai64nfrac/>.

AUTHOR
       Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

LICENSE
       This  program  is in the	public domain.	If it is not legal or possible
       to place	a work in the public  domain  in  your	jurisdiction,  then  I
       hereby  grant you a license to treat this program in every way as if it
       were in the public domain.

1.4				  2003-03-09			 TAI64NFRAC(1)

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