> BTW, while rooting around in contrib/ I noticed that contrib/unixdate
> has an efficient way of going the other direction: just apply the
> conversion from abstime with a type cheat. The coding is obsolete,
> but updated to 6.5, it works fine:
i saw it there, but couldn't get it to work.
this looks like what i need.
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