Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!zen!vic
From: vic@zen.co.uk (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Convert string time into seconds?
Message-ID: <1641@zen.co.uk>
Date: 11 Jul 89 19:50:40 GMT
References: <214@melpar.UUCP> <4760015@hpirs.HP.COM>
Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <4760015@hpirs.HP.COM> wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone) writes:
>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

Is there an ANSI C/Posix/WhateverStandardYouCareToNominate function that will
convert from a time in a string (as produced by asctime()/ctime()) ?

[[I've always wanted one for those odd occasions, but have (up to now) been
able to do without]]

			vic
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