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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Convert MM/DD/YY HH:MM to long??
Summary: getdate.y and getdate.3 come with B News 2.11
Message-ID: <6828@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 88 23:58:07 GMT
References: <1059@bcd-dyn.UUCP> <17800003@ugun21>
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In-reply-to: josef@ugun21.UUCP

In article <17800003@ugun21>, josef@ugun21 writes:
>>I'm looking for a function to convert a "broken down" time (ie, day, month,
>>year, hour, min format) to a long compatible with the time function call. 
>>Does anyone have such a beast?  Thanks.  -Scott
>
>I would be interested as well...

If you're running B News 2.10 or 2.11 (as opposed to Notefiles or C
News or whatever), you already have what you're looking for.

In your B News source, you should find ``getdate.y'', which (after
being yacc'ed and compiled) takes a character pointer and converts it
to a long, suitable for use with ctime(3), etc.  It understand various
input formats.  There's even a manual page provided (``getdate.3'')

	...tad
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Tad Guy         <tadguy@cs.odu.edu>     Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA