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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Convert string time into seconds?
Message-ID: <11780@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 11 Jul 89 15:12:19 GMT
References: <214@melpar.UUCP> <4760015@hpirs.HP.COM> <303@lancelot>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <303@lancelot>, lance@lancelot (Lancelot of Caid) writes:
> In article <4760015@hpirs.HP.COM>, wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone) writes:
> < > I have a user entered time/date in the format:
> < > yymmddhhmmss
> < > I need to convert this into seconds since the epoch and
> What if you DON'T have ANSI C libs?

I answered the original posting by email; I'll repeat it publicly.
At the cost of a few small syntactic rewrites of that string,
getdate() -- part of the netnews src, and in the public domain since
I wrote it lo these many years ago -- can do the job.  It's overkill,
but it will work if you don't want to take the time to do it right
for this particular case.

		--Steve Bellovin