Need some time functions

[Ron Harter]

I have inherited a project that where I need to convert time form the
DataTime format to the old form of seconds since 1/1/70. I can't locate any
functionality in the framework (2.0) that even knows about that particular
format.

Can some one point me to some code that does that. I also need to give an
arbitrary date in the future and get time in seconds from the Epoch. I am
hoping to avoid have to write the functionality if some is already out
there.



Thanks in Advance

 

[Greg Young]

You should just be able to use the DateTime class ...

in order to get a future date ... just take ..

TimeSpan t = YourDate - new DateTime(1970,1,1);
return t.TotalSeconds;

in order to get a date from seconds just use

DateTime YourDate= new DateTime(1970,1,1).AddSeconds(yourseconds);

also remember that seconds since epoch are generally stored in UTC

Cheers,

Greg Young
MVP - C#
http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung