§2023-09-18

¶ 1.0

$ sudo tail -f /var/log/emerge.log 
1694950328:  === (70 of 72) Post-Build Cleaning (dev-libs/libportal-0.6::/var/db/repos/gentoo/dev-libs/libportal/libportal-0.6.ebuild)
1694950328:  ::: completed emerge (70 of 72) dev-libs/libportal-0.6 to /
1694950329:  >>> emerge (71 of 72) net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600 to /
1694950329:  === (71 of 72) Cleaning (net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600::/var/db/repos/gentoo/net-libs/webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600.ebuild)
1694950330:  === (71 of 72) Compiling/Merging (net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600::/var/db/repos/gentoo/net-libs/webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600.ebuild)
1694983841: Started emerge on: Sep 18, 2023 04:50:40
1694983841:  *** emerge --regex-search-auto=y www-client/epiphany
1694983881:  >>> emerge (1 of 2) net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600 to /
1694983881:  === (1 of 2) Cleaning (net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600::/var/db/repos/gentoo/net-libs/webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600.ebuild)
1694983884:  === (1 of 2) Compiling/Merging (net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600::/var/db/repos/gentoo/net-libs/webkit-gtk/webkit-gtk-2.42.0-r600.ebuild)
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The number "1694950328" in the context of the tail -f /var/log/emerge.log command represents a timestamp or a Unix timestamp, to be more precise. Unix timestamps are a way to represent a specific point in time as an integer. They count the number of seconds that have elapsed since the "Unix epoch," which is January 1, 1970, at 00:00:00 UTC.

So, "1694950328" represents a point in time that is 1,694,950,328 seconds (or approximately 50.76 years) after the Unix epoch. You can convert this timestamp to a more human-readable date and time using various programming languages or online tools.

For example, using Python, you can convert this timestamp as follows:

import datetime

timestamp = 1694950328
dt_object = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)
print(dt_object)  # 2023-09-17 19:32:08