Does a wrapper for gmtime exist

[Andrew Gibb]

Hi,

I'm writing a module for dealing with video timing. The C++ code I'm using as a basis uses gmtime to convert seconds into y:m:d.etc. Does anyone know if this functionality is exposed in Julia anywhere?

I realise I could handle this myself with ccall, I just wanted to check to see if I could avoid duplicating effort.

Thanks

Andy

[Isaiah Norton]

IIUC, the Julia DateTime object represents UT (milli)seconds, and has converters to/from human-readable dates and local time.

http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/dates/

[Jeffrey Sarnoff]

Andy,

You are welcome to use https://github.com/J-Sarnoff/UTime.jl

Pkg.clone("https://github.com/J-Sarnoff/UTime.jl")

using UTime

localtime()

2016-07-27T14:41:37.497-04:00

ut()

2016-07-27T18:41:42Z

gmt() # gmt aliases ut

2016-07-27T18:41:45Z

alocaltime = localtime()

2016-07-27T14:42:04.282-04:00

ut(alocaltime)

2016-07-27T18:42:04.282Z

auniversaltime = ut()

2016-07-27T18:42:24Z

localtime(auniversaltime)

2016-07-27T14:42:24-04:00

julia> g=gmt(); g

2016-07-27T18:50:48Z

julia> year(g),month(g),day(g),hour(g),minute(g),second(g)

(2016,7,27,18,50,48)

There is more that one may do using UTime, take a look at the README examples.

It has been some time since I revisited it, so please ask if you have any questions, 

and let me know if there is something that is not now working as it had.

I just ran the examples above in v0.5-.

Regards, 

Jeffrey

[Andrew Gibb]

Thanks both for the suggestions.