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From: lorien@dartvax.UUCP (Lorien Y. Pratt)
Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.unix
Subject: Need time subtraction routine
Message-ID: <1716@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-May-84 16:41:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 16:41:20 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 08:02:48 EDT
Organization: Dartmouth College
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I'm about to sit down to write a function to return a user-friendly
string that indicates the elapsed time between two times that are in
the format hh:mm:ss.  I can pass this routine the date and year, too,
if necessary.  If anyone has already written such a beast, I'd
appreciate it if you'd pass it along.

I'm running 4.2Bsd on an 11/750.  Yes, I know that if I use the system
built-in time functions, I wouldn't have to go through this hassle.
Unfortunately, I'm reading a transaction file that's pre-formatted with
times in an "easy to read" format instead of showing elapsed seconds
since the first day of 1970.

	Thanks for any time you can save me!

      --Lorien Y. Pratt
	Dartmouth College Library
	Hanover, NH  03755

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