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Re: Unix Timestamp

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Wiacek)
Mon Oct 22 20:54:27 2001

Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:53:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Wiacek <mikew@magpage.com>
To: Brandon Handeland <Brandon@wyoming.com>
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If you are using perl, localtime()

If you are using C, strftime() uses a timezone
struct provided by the c function localtime().
strftime takes printf style arguments, and builds
strings that represent the time for you.

mike


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UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid
things, because that would also stop you from doing
clever things. -- Doug Gwyn

  Mike Wiacek
  Systems Administrator
  Magpage Internet Services
  800-250-2990 Ext 226

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Brandon Handeland wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Brandon Handeland             Brandon@wyoming.com
> Senior Network Engineer
> wyoming.com NOC       (307) 857-1092
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>


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