jon@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jon Boede) (10/12/89)
Rather than re-invent the wheel, I'm looking for a piece of code that converts
the Date field of messages into a nice time(2) style long integer that my C
program can use. The messages envelopes on the other side of a gateway I'm in
charge of use a long instead of the ASCII date -- currently we're using the
date the letter arrived at the gateway as the "Date:" which, given the speed
of most Internet letters, is pretty good... but, not always.
The variety among Date: lines is even more frightening than From: lines. :-)
If anyone has a piece of code written, please mail me. If anyone WANTS this
code, mail me as well... I'll have to write it if I don't get somebody else's,
and I'll be happy to re-distribute.
Please mail to jon@bodedo.ucm.org as I hardly ever get a chance to read news
these days (sigh).
Thanks!
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"People who are incapable of making decisions are
the ones that hit those barrels at freeway exits"henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/12/89)
In article <19481@ut-emx.UUCP> jon@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jon Boede) writes: >Rather than re-invent the wheel, I'm looking for a piece of code that converts >the Date field of messages into a nice time(2) style long integer that my C >program can use... Check out the getdate() function, shipped with most versions of news software. It's the de-facto standard for such things. It is not perfect, but pretty good. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu