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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Convert string time into seconds?
Message-ID: <4760015@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 21:27:09 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> I have a user entered time/date in the format:
> yymmddhhmmss
> I need to convert this into seconds since the epoch and

If you have ANSI C libraries, convert the yymmddhhmmss into a tm struct
and then use mktime() to convert that into seconds since the epoch.

Wayne