Unix Timestamp

Mon Oct 22 19:08:51 UTC 2001

In message <87elnvtsdd.fsf at valhalla.seastrom.com>, Robert E. Seastrom writes:
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>Brandon Handeland <Brandon at wyoming.com> writes:
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>> 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.
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>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

Thanks -- but I think that my code performs the inverse function.  That 
is, it converts lots of different time formats *into* Unix time.  Also, 
so much of the code was rewritten by others in the mid-1990's that I'm 
not sure it's fair to call it mine any more.  (My code was written in 
1979, when 'int' was a 16-bit datatype, 'long' didn't exist, and the 
yacc stack was composed of 16-bit values only -- all of which are why 
it needed to be rewritten...  As a fringe benefit, my original code 
not only had y2k issues, it refused to convert any dates after 2000.)

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