DESCRIPTION¶
If the argument ts is an array with 9 elements (int) according to the result of localtime(E) or gmtime(E), this function returns the number of seconds passed since the epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970). This can be used to store a date or time as an integer value or to compute differences betweens two different dates or times.
The array ts has to have the following structure:
| place | contains |
|---|---|
int TM_SEC (0) |
Seconds (0..59) |
int TM_MIN (1) |
Minutes (0..59) |
int TM_HOUR (2) |
Hours (0..23) |
int TM_MDAY (3) |
Day of the month (1..31) |
int TM_MON (4) |
Month of the year (0..11) |
int TM_YEAR (5) |
Year (e.g. 2001) |
int TM_WDAY (6) |
Day of the week (Sunday = 0) |
int TM_YDAY (7) |
Day of the year (0..365) |
int TM_ISDST (8) |
TRUE during daylight saving time |
TM_YDAY and TM_WDAY are ignored and can contain arbitrary integer values.
USAGE¶
A date and time (user input) shall be stored as unix timestamp. In the below example, unixtime holds the unix timestamp corresponding to “Wed Oct 24 10:48:00 2007”:
int unixtime = mktime( ({0, 48, 09, 24, 09, 2007, 0, 01, 0}) );
HISTORY¶
- introduced (3.3.718)