I believe what you need is mktime(3) (that is, "man 3 mktime"). Read the man pages of the associated functions too. You may be better served if you direct your questions to the Linux C Programming mailing list. Rafael -- PMoraza@aol.com wrote:

I follow this procedure to use gettimeofday() ... 1. #include and 2. declare timeval and timezone structs ...

struct timeval tv; struct timezone tz;

3. pass tv and tz to gettimeofday (look at man gettimeofday) ...

gettimeofday(&tv, &tz);

4. assign the member elements in the timeval struct (from #3) to long variables (or you do whatever else you had in mind) ...

s_sec = tv.tv_sec; s_msec = tv.tv_usec;

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"EXT-Moore, Kirk W" wrote:

I am in need of some advice.... I am trying to figure out a way to take a specific date and convert it to the unix time. i.e.... 07/15/99 and convert that to the unix time for that specific date lets say at noon. I have pondered this... and am at a lose....

I am talking about the time that started 1/1/70... ( I believe....)

To take the current date/time and output it in 'Unix time': date +%s or to take a certain date (for example midnight on the 6th of May): date -d '6 May 2000' +%s See 'man date' for more information. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/