Help converting string to time_t, please

[bcemick]

I have an SDI program that has a dialog containing a list control. In one field of the list control, a date is to be displayed. It's received from another dialog as CTime and converted to a string for display.

How do I need take the string from the list control and convert it to time_t?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[timmay3141]

I don't have a compiler on this computer, and I haven't had to do anything like that for a while, but here's how I think it can be done.

Take your string and convert it back to a CTime, or just store the CTime that the dialog originally gave you. Get the current time as a CTime and subtract them (I believe you can do that?) to get the difference. Convert the difference to seconds, and add it to whatever time() tells you is the current time

 

[bcemick]

I was just popping in here to say "Never mind". It took a while, but I finally got it to work. Thanks for the reply though.