Strange time display

[Hans Meine]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:40:28 Isaac Jurado wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar at cs.elte.hu> wrote:
> >      * Do you want to say with that, that "1228751240.00" is a correct
> >        string representation of the internal time (i.e. the time _plus_
> >        the timezone)? My question was about this.
>
> AFAIK, both characters are separated by a null character (in that
> string representation).

Out of curiosity, I tested it and I must say that the null character does not 
seem to make it to stdout.  So the answer to Alpár would be "you *must* use a 
filter for formatting, otherwise the output will be unparseable".

HTH,
  Hans