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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Seconds from 19xx to Date (and visa
Summary: ctime and emitc
Message-ID: <7618@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 6 Oct 88 12:33:12 GMT
References: <5522@hoptoad.uucp> <44100014@hcx2>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <44100014@hcx2> danr@hcx2.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
>>   Does anyone have a routine to change back and forth between
>>seconds from 19xx to a Year, Month, Day sort of Date?  
>
>	You might want to look at the man page for ctime(), if you have 
>access to one.  it is in the standard library, so you don't need to write 
>anything bu the function call.

I'd forgotten completely about unctime [ emitc ] which was recently posted.

There is a recently posted function which understands ctime output format
and can convert a ctime string into a long integer time.

It was posted in comp.sources.misc in the last few months.
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

      "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same
                   entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias