Converting Unix timestamp to VMS

[Dana Vraspir]

I need to find a C function that can be passed a Unix timestamp (unsigned long), and return a managable (readable) date time format.

[Antoniov.]

I don't understand your question; in C over VMS you can use all unix function and all structure of unix time.
Please post more info for furthermore help.

Bye
Antoniov

[Brad McCusker]

Wouldn't ctime() do what you want?

Your question is not clear, perhaps you don't have an understanding of the time functions available on VMS? Please reference the latest copy of the HP C Run-Time Library Reference Manual for OpenVMS Systems, specifically chapter 11 which deals with date and time functions. It is available on line at: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732FINAL/5763/5763pro_019.html#date_time_chap

If that doesn't help answer the question, please give us some more details, and we can try to help.

Regards,

Brad McCusker
VMS Engineering

[Peter Skoog]

Hi,

Take a look at strftime in C runtime which is used to format a struct tm.

Example:

time_t tp;
char ts[100];
time( &tp );
strftime( ts, 99, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
localtime( &tp ) );

Regards
Peter

[Dana Vraspir]

Yes - ctime() does just what I wanted.
A little more research on my part would have answered this.

Thank you!

[Vouters]

Dana,

Wouldn't the following example help ?
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/asktima/operating_systems/009C99AA-F657C6A0-1C0096.html