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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ASCII-->internal time
Message-ID: <4750021@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 89 00:13:35 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>     I've been reviewing ctime, et al and note that they are good for 
>     converting UNIX internal time format into ascii and struct tm but 
>     don't provide a way to convert from ascii or struct tm back to UNIX 
>     internal format.  I don't see a cousin which has that functionality

The draft standard for ANSI C defines a function mktime() which converts
a tm structure into a time_t value (time_t is the type ANSI C defines to
be returned by the time() function).

Wayne Krone