[comp.unix.questions] Unix time question

jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) (10/03/89)

I have a date string, of the form yymmddhhmmss.ss

How do I convert this into the number of seconds since the Unix epoch?

In other words, gettimeofday(2) gives me the *current* time in elapsed
seconds...  I want the number of elapsed seconds represented by my
date string.

date(1) does this, but I don't have source.  TFM doesn't seem to cover this.
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Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)

skwu@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) (10/04/89)

In article <738@larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival) writes:
>I have a date string, of the form yymmddhhmmss.ss
>
>How do I convert this into the number of seconds since the Unix epoch?

See pages 49-52 of Marc Rochkind's ADVANCED UNIX PROGRAMMING