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From: sake@helpdesk.euronet.nl (Sake Blok)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Calculate time from ascii-time
Date: 7 Jan 1997 13:29:32 GMT
Organization: EuroNet Internet
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Hi,
For processing some log-files I would like to calculate the amount of
seconds since Epoch in a script. The entries in the log-file are of the
following form: Tue Jan 7 14:07:51 MET 1997
The script itself will be in Perl, so if it can be done (easily) from
withing Perl, that's great, if not an external program in C will do too.
I think I can use mktime(3) for the purpose but I would think somebody would
already have done so and it feels stupid to invent the wheel all over
again :-)
So if anybody has some sourcecode already for calculating seconds-since-epoch
from an ascii-time-string, I would apreciate it.
Thanks,
Sake
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