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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: date to unix seconds
Keywords: date time seconds
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Date: 25 Mar 91 09:21:05 GMT
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  See Message <91Mar23.034527edt.1008@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>, posted in the
last couple of days to alt.sources.wanted and comp.sources.wanted.  It
explains how to get the date code from the C news sources; that code will do
what you want.

  Well, sort of.  It doesn't parse fully numeric dates (i.e. the mm/dd/yy
format you mentioned) in order to avoid ambiguity between US/European number
order.  However, you can get around this problem by changing the date string
slightly (e.g. by changing the mm number to the alphabetic abbreviation for
the month) before passing it into the C news code.

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