omshell "starts", "ends"
John Hascall
john at iastate.edu
Fri May 25 03:45:31 UTC 2007
> Ah... should have tried that...
>
> Any idea what the following means:
> starts = "C9VF"
Looks like a bug in omshell -- it's printing starts
as a string rather than 4 hex bytes.
"C9VF" == 43:39:56:46
John
> John Hascall wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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