omshell "starts", "ends"

[John Hascall]

> The man page for omshell says that both starts and ends are in hex and 
> should represent the start and end time of the lease.
> 
> I tried converting  the number to decimal and then to a date... it 
> wasn't even close.
> 
> ends = 03:e2:56:46
> starts = "C9VF"
> 
> $ ./cvtHex.pl 03:e2:56:46
> Converting 03e25646...
> dec = 65164870
>          Mon Jan 24 21:21:10 1972

  You've got the bytes backwards

   0x4656E203 == 1180099075

  Or about 10 hours from now.

John