Re: "Number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT" for OAuth

Building upon Chuck's good suggestion (thanks, Chuck!), I have provided a better procedure for obtaining seconds since 1-Jan-1970, 0:00:00 in either Local or GM time.

If no parameter is passed to the procedure (or if a parameter is passed but it doesn't equal 'L') then GMT time is returned. Otherwise, Local time is returned.

The procedure (along with its test-program wrapper) can be found at http://code.midrange.com/8abba7dbd7.html
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Dennis
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"CRPence" <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 21-Nov-2011 15:07 , James Lampert wrote:

Would anybody happen to know how to get the current system time as
the "number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT"? Other
than by adjusting a current timestamp to GMT, constructing one for
January 1, 1970 00:00:00, and doing an RPG SUBDUR? Or is that
actually the easiest way?

If a "timeval structure" is desired or "easy" enough, then perhaps:

_gettimeofday()--Get Current UTC Time_
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/apis/gettod.htm
"Syntax

#include <sys/time.h>

int gettimeofday (struct timeval *tp,
struct timezone *tzp);

Service Program Name:QWCTZUTC

...

Parameters

tp
(Output) A pointer to a timeval structure that contains the time in
seconds and microseconds since 1 January 1970, 00:00:00 UTC
(epoch-1970).
"

Regards, Chuck
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