C Conundrums?

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:03 pm

I'm attempting to code a program in C to give the amount of time until a specific date. Unfortunately for me, time in C is represented as the amount of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970, for some reason I can't comprehend beyond 'unix used it'. Is there a simple way to convert a date into that format?

Post by **gannon** » Wed May 28, 2008 2:47 pm

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/ might give an answer, gives at least the opposite

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Wed May 28, 2008 7:17 pm

That's a very useful resource, I've been using it for a long time now. difftime seems to be useful only if you have the seconds already, and I think I am just overlooking some simple mathmatical method, not a function or anything...