[Gambas-user] Question about date conversion in Gambas v2

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Or use shell with "date +%s".

Jussi


2010/9/27 Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...>

> > Hi Benoit,
> >
> > I have just a question about the possibility to convert in Gambas v2 a
> > variable in format Date to a value of this date in number of seconds like
> > in Unix command ?
> >
> > In my projet i need to use date value in number of seconds and not in
> > standard format as for example this one: not    26-09-2010 17:08:00   but
> >    in seconds  since 1970-01-01 00:00:00  =>  1285513680  seconds
> >
> > I just want to know if it possible or not in Gambas v2 otherwise I will
> > continue to use the Unix command 'date' ?
> >
> > Thank in advance,
> >
> > Olivier Cruilles
> > Mail: linuxos at ...1896...
> >
>
> Dates are internally stored as a number of seconds and microseconds from a
> Gambas epoch (which is not the Unix epoch), in GMT.
>
> When converted to Float, you get a number of days as integer part, and the
> rest as decimal part.
>
> So, if you need a unix timestamp, i.e. a number of seconds since epoch, you
> just have to do that:
>
> Print Int((CFloat(now) - CFloat(Date(1970, 1, 1))) * 86400)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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