bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 on Nostr: So how hard could it be to convert `Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:07:07` in UTC into a UNIX ...

So how hard could it be to convert `Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:07:07` in UTC into a UNIX epoch time_t timestamp, in C or C++? Quite hard. Many things that you'd think would work actually don't. Here I present solutions (with running code), and a little tour through 'struct tm', 'time_t', 'mktime' and 'strptime':

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-to-get-a-unix-epoch-from-a-utc-date-time-string/