newbie question, date diff

[NWNinja]

Hi all!
I have a probably simple question. I have a string that´s parsed from a file. This string contains a time/date in the following format:
Wed Aug 16 19:05:43 2006
I need to compare that time with the system time, and find how many hours have past between them. Any suggestions?

Cheers!
Maverick

 

[KevinADC]

let's see what you have tried.

 

[stevexff]

Sounds like homework...

Steve

[small]"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." (Object:erlDesignPatterns)[/small]

 

[k1ng0fn3rd]

It would be much easier if you could change the format of the date to make the month a number, preferrably something like this:
Wed 7 16 19:05:43 2006.
It would help even more if the day of the year could be provided, for example:
Wed 226 19:05:43 2006, in which case days could simply be converted to hours by multiplying by 24, and years to hours by multiplying by 8760. Some things have to change with leap years etc., but with those changes it should definitely make things a lot easier.