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Re: HELP with systime() [message #10877]

Wed, 11 February 1998 00:00

safier
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>>>> > "Mark" == Mark Elliott <mark@mail.mmrrcc.upenn.edu> writes:

Mark> Is there a way to convert a binary time value like the one
Mark> returned by

Mark> timeval = systime(1)

Mark> into a date string like

Mark> DOW MON DD HH:MM:SS YEAR ?

Mark> I've found bin_date() but it accepts only the
Mark> ascii_time format for input. I'd like to convert the number
Mark> of seconds since 1/1/1970 into the month,day,year,... that
Mark> it corresponds to.

If you are on a unix system, you can use spawn and the Unix date
command:

spawn('date',mydate)

The output of date will be in mydate.

Hope this helps...

Pedro
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		Re: HELP with systime() By: safier on Wed, 11 February 1998 00:00
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