Re: Conversion to UNIX time

[Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@earthlink.net> writes:
[...]
>     Having said that, Use Unchecked_Conversion to convert the time
> representation to an integer or better a modular type.  Next instantiate
> Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO or Modular_IO for that type.  Now call Put (to
> string) with Base = 16.  Edit the return string to remove the leading "
> 16#" and trailing "#".  Sounds very complex, but you can do the call to
> Unchecked_Conversion nested, then subscript the returned value:
> 
>    Temp: String(1..13);
>  begin
>    Mod_IO.Put(Temp, My_UC(Start_Time), 16);
>    FileName(X..X+7) := Temp(5..12);

Why use Unchecked_Conversion?  If Start_Time is of an integer type,
wouldn't an ordinary type conversion make more sense?

Start_Time is probably a time_t, which on many systems is a 32-bit
signed integer.  (But not all; I work on systems where time_t is
64 bits -- as it's likely to be on all systems by 2038.)

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