Unix Timestamp

Mon Oct 22 18:57:34 UTC 2001

Brandon Handeland <Brandon at wyoming.com> writes:

> Does anyone have a formula to convert a unix time stamp into the
> current time?  I know it is January 1st, 1970, in UTC format.  Just
> need some example code.
> 
> I'm trying to export some data from a HP/UX box into a MSSQL database and 
> need to use the timestamp feature of MSSQL.

The best code I've seen for this (and which knows about most variants
of the timestamp seen in the wild) was written by Steve Bellovin et
al, and can be found in the inn distribution in lib/parsedate.y

                                        ---Rob