I am embarrassed to ask. In my defense I figured out quite a bit of my problem already (there were six or seven parts and I'm stuck on this, the last, one); I'm just not that good at this so–

What unpack template do I need to turn the 8 bytes -- 00 00 01 16 7A 53 7C 80 (meaning I don't have a hex string but a byte stream) -- into a timestamp November 26,2007 (so, this might be 1196060400 but I'm not sure it won't be somewhere else in the day.

I tried everything I could think to try. All the flags plain templates (even ones that didn't make any sense). Splitting the bytes up into groups and reversing them before unpacking with "L*" or friends. What's the right way?

Thank you!

In reply to Little help for the (un)pack challenged by Your Mother

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