Ways to get number of seconds from Epoch

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Mark McEahern wrote:

> > Each record have recorded time as follows:
> > 
> > [15/Apr/2002:08:28:56 +0200]
> 
> That format seems a little odd:
> 
> o The slash separator with month name abbreviations.
> o The colon between year and hour.

It is a little odd, but it's also how Common Log Format does timestamps:

http://www.bacuslabs.com/WsvlCLF.html

-Dave