From:	Stephan Wilms <Stephan DOT Wilms AT cwa DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++,comp.lang.c
Subject:	Re: Question(newbie): strptime alternative
Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:37:18 +0100
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Myron Seto schrieb:
> 
> Here's an easy question, for a usually non programmer.  I wish to write
> a simple C program to calculate the number of days between two dates.

What a coincidence. You are the second one to ask this very question
today. You don't know Michel Lee by any chance ? Do have a look at the
reply I wrote to his request.

Basically you can use the "difftime()" function to obtain the difference
between two "time_t" values in seconds.

The other solution that I mentioned to Michel is to use the scalar
date/time functions in the SNIPPETS source code collection:
    http://www.snippets.org/ 

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Stephan
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