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From: Sumit Narayan <talk2sumit@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unix Time
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 17:33:57 -0400
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You can use ctime() for conversion.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(){
  time_t a;
  printf("%d = ", time(&a));
  printf("%s\n", ctime(&a));
  return 0;
}

Hope this helps.

--Sumit

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:57:42 +0100, Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:59:47 +0200 (CEST), szonyi calin
> <caszonyi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > to convert a number of secconds in actual time:
> > a minute has 60 seconds
> > an hour has 60 minutes = 3600 seconds
> > a day has 24 hours = 86400 seconds
> 
> ...but don't use this because over the period of seconds since epoch
> (January 1 1970 is when UNIX began counting time) it'll not take in to
> account leap seconds and the like - so you'll cunningly be out of time
> by a little in every calculation.
> 
> No. Use the standard POSIX time functions instead - e.g. localtime()
> to give you the view of time for where you are in the world.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 
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