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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Unix time question
Keywords: ctime time gettimeofday
Message-ID: <738@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 89 16:51:53 GMT
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison WI
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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)