From: Andy Eskilsson <x-aes AT telelogic DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Help with comparing dates
Date: 20 Mar 1997 09:24:11 +0100
Organization: Telelogic AB, Sweden
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/ mdr6 AT dana DOT ucc DOT nau DOT edu (Michael Dylan Ryan) wrote:
| Can someone help me with a function to compare two dates.  I want to write
| a function that will take a date string char *d = "03/01/97" and two other
| date strings, start and end, and check to see if d is in between them.
| 
| I have been working with dates for a while and can never get a function to
| compare accurately 100% of the time.  Any help appreciated.

Convert the dates to a tm-struct with the help of strptime, and from
there to seconds and compare them..

If you can't find strptime, I have written one in c, can be found at 
http://www.fukt.hk-r.se/~flognat/hacks/

	/Andy