Finding either boot time or login time

[Cooper, Karl (US SSA)]

> Mark J. Reed writes:
>> One-liner to display the boot time:
>> $ perl -lane 'print ~~localtime(time-$F[0])' /proc/uptime
> 
> Ronald Fischer wrote:
>> Would you mind explaining the ~~ trick?
> 
> Clever tricks are interesting, but definitely are an obfuscation.
> This makes things more plain:
> 
> perl -lane 'print(scalar(localtime(time() - int($F[0]))))'
> /proc/uptime 
I don't know perl, but I did try both of these one-liners on my
Cygwin 1.7 setup, and the output differs (by one second).  I thought
that was interesting.

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