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From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: date converter
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Date: 9 Jan 90 17:33:17 GMT
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>Does anyone have a quick and dirty algorithm for converting a date
>stored as a certain number of seconds to MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS and
>vice-versa?  Thanks.
>
>--
>Dave Whitney
>dcw@sun-bear.lcs.mit.edu  ...!mit-eddie!sun-bear!dcw  dcw@athena.mit.edu

The GS may have a toolbox routine for doing this.  I think the Mac (Ha!)
does.

ANSI C is supposed to support the conversion of seconds, but I believe
the actual details are machine-dependent.  The Mac, for example, stores
seconds since Jan. 1, 1900 or 1901.

If all else fails, you can do a bunch of divides and modulos :^)


Howard C. Huang
huang@husc4.harvard.edu