Number of seconds between two times

[Pam]

[Michael Y]

[britcode]

UNIX has a system when all times are espressed in seconds since some special date in 1970, and I think you can get this is Windows as well.
Possibly by calling time() or another ANSI function?

Obviously in this case this system is easier to work with than a function which returns hours and seconds and stuff.

...though it does run out in 2037 or something (when all UNIX machines will die!)

update - just checked eVC, and there's no time function I must be thinking of Gnu GCC.
Oh well - I guess they stripped out all the UNIX stuff in Windows CE - makes sense.

[Pam]

Michael, the problem is how you get to time1 and time2 if they are spread apart by years. If it's time within one day, it's pretty easy to add the hours minutes seconds together. But over years or decades it's much more difficult to figure out.

Pam

[Digby]

It comes down to computing which year is a leap year (contains 366 days vs. 365). You already know how many days are in each month, and how many seconds are in a day. Do the math sistah!

[Pam]

[refractor]

[BadBazza]

[Dan East]

[Dan East]

[BadBazza]