From: dbe@wgn.net ($Bill Luebkert) Subject: Re: Registry Date format in Windows 16 Aug 1998 19:40:46 -0700 Message-ID: <35D6FEC3.6BA6F4A0.cygnus.gnu-win32@wgn.net> References: <35D62364.2B567C60@omedia.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Guglielmo Pasa wrote: > > How is the date stored in the registry of Windows ? > > For example I installed a programm the 04.08.98 at 14h30 (4th August 98) and in > the registry the date is written as > > 902233852 > > How is it converted ? What is the algorihm ? Looks like seconds since the Epoch (Jan 1, 1970). Except for the 100 and 400 year exceptions and leap year tallying, it's just the simple conversion of years, months, days, hours and minutes to seconds since the Epoch time. Here's the BSD man page for the asctime, ctime, difftime, gmtime, localtime, mktime functions: http://www.bsd.com/bsdi-man?proto=1.1&query=asctime&msection=3&apropos=0 -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles / ) /--< o // // Mailto:dbe@wgn.net -/-' /___/_<_