[rrd-users] RRDs::fetch() returns strange time values

[A Darren Dunham]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:13:43AM +0100, Jens Rannacher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use RRDs::fetch(...) to read my rrd files. Everything works fine, but
> the returned "$time" and "$step" variables contain a strange time format.

Can you show an example?  What version of rrdtool is installed?

> The $start variable consists of 18 digits, but although it doesn't seem to
> be a UNIX timestamp, the perl function localtime() can handle it.
> 
> "$start % $step" returns me the start-time as UNIX timestamp minus one
> step. It's relly confusing. Perhaps someone can explain this to me?

I'm not sure what you mean.  Can you show an example?

$ perl -le 'use RRDs; ($start,$step,$names,$data) = RRDs::fetch("test.rrd", "AVERAGE", "-s", "1000000000); print "$start $step";'
1000000800 3600
$ 

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