Thanks!  Of course sometimes the dumber scrpts are exactly what is needed for the problem at hand :)

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 5:43 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
I suck, the script I sent is broken.
Here is the corrected one and an example:
kitepilot@twinbeech[~]$ translate-time-in-dmesg.sh 1030490.914098
Machine turned ON on: Sun Dec 16 11:02:14 EST 2012, 16 days ago.
Event time:           Fri Dec 28 09:17:04 EST 2012
Today:                Tue Jan  1 19:40:54 EST 2013
kitepilot@twinbeech[~]$

kitepilot@kitepilot.com writes:
Oh boy, my script is *WAY* dummer:
It has to be run on the box that bears the timestamp.
ET  
 
Dazed_75 writes:  
I finally did find that explanation at
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5804/correlating-var-log-timestam psand
the script he wrote at
https://github.com/intuited/syslogdriver/blob/master/syslogdriver.py  
I'd love to see yours if it could be arranged (though I have to admit I
might not get to it right away.  
Thanks for the quick response!
Larry  
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:55 PM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:  
what does "[   166.287]" mean

Seconds elapsed since system boot.
I wrote a script that translates those seconds to 'human' time, if you
need it.
ET  

Dazed_75 writes:  
what does "[   166.287]" mean in Linux log file?  Some log files have
timestamps while others have this type of notation.
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