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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Convert string time into seconds?
Message-ID: <4760016@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 89 21:48:32 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> >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()) ?

Not that I'm aware of.  I'll start a discussion in X/Open to see if
we can address this need.  A function that would convert local (German,
Japanese, ...) date/time strings as well as the asctime() string
would be useful.

Wayne