Quoting Ken Ramsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> Thanks guys,
>
> MySQL defines the field as a DATETIME , so the return type is time_t. As
> far as I could find out, there is no helper funtion to convert this into
> secs from 1 Jan 1970 , so I got around it by using the difftime() call
> and subtracting the returned value from 1/1/1970. difftime() returns the
> difference in seconds.
>
> Not sure it is the most elegant way to do it but it works ...;-}
>

Ah, I see. libdbi provides a dbi_result_get_datetime() function to  
retrieve these time_t values. Unless you have to do it in SQL, you  
could then post-process this value using gmtime() or any other  
suitable Unix time function.

regards,
Markus


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