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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Date -> time(2)
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.154252.23144@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 89 15:42:52 GMT

In article <19481@ut-emx.UUCP> jon@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jon Boede) writes:
>Rather than re-invent the wheel, I'm looking for a piece of code that converts
>the Date field of messages into a nice time(2) style long integer that my C
>program can use...

Check out the getdate() function, shipped with most versions of news
software.  It's the de-facto standard for such things.  It is not perfect,
but pretty good.
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