Re: how to convert ascii time to seconde ( epoch time )

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_inprovide.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:37:57 +0100

John Fusco <fusco_john@yahoo.com> writes:

> Josef Moellers wrote:
>> google-rambo88 wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>> time_t t;
>>> struct tm * tblock;
>>> t = time ( NULL );
>>> tblock = localtime(&t);
>>>
>>> printf( "long = %ld , Local time is: %s", t1, asctime(tblock)) );
>>> ==>Sun Sep 16 01:03:52 1973
>>>
>>> I'd like to know how to convert ascii time to epoch time(second).
>>> namely , Sun Sep 16 01:03:52 1890 ==> epoch time in second?
>> You'll need to convert the string into a struct tm and then call
>> mktime().
>
> You might want to look at Python's strptime() in the time package.

Anything wrong with strptime() in C? 

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com

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