Please help me to understand the binary representation of datetime.I have a program which stores time as the following:

   binary data        -->  human readable datetime  dd.mm.yy hh:mm:ss

c16f b90e d17f e340   -->  01.05.09 12:47:35
5384 d5dd d27f e340   -->  01.05.09 14:09:03
1d0a 3dde d27f e340   -->  01.05.09 18:48:01
1bd8 2a11 d97f e340   -->  01.05.09 18:48:05
1b64 9211 d97f e340   -->  01.05.09 18:48:05
78d2 1182 e07f e340   -->  02.05.09 00:22:51
1cac 2682 e07f e340   -->  02.05.09 00:22:52
1cac 2682 e07f e340   -->  02.05.09 00:22:52
51d9 6182 e07f e340   -->  02.05.09 00:22:55
b74a 8982 e07f e340   -->  02.05.09 00:22:56
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I'd like to be able to convert bin to txt and vice versa. I have a limited access to the program and can't just change the binary to see how time strings are changed.

I hope that it may be some standard of binary format for time. Who knows?

Update It's a PC with windows 98. I can fetch signed integer values from the log with unpack 'i', $part_of_bin_str

The program contorls a phone station and writes log messages which I want to parse and modify. I think that time granularity is far less than one second. Something like T1. The timestamp is not generated by PC but comes from phone station.

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