Hi... There was quite a discussion of this question back at the end of
October... which then became a discussion of Julian dates. I think this was
the most elegant/simplest answer to your question though.. thanks to
msg#43926 from Thomas Jensen:
epoch: func [] [
x: (* now - 1-1-1970 86400) + now/time ; returns a time! value
x/3 + ((x/1 * 60) + x/2 * 60) ; converts to seconds, would be nice
; if (to integer! x) worked...
]
Russ
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At 09:30 AM 11/22/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello everyone....forgive a newbie question....Perl has a time function
>which returns a number of seconds since a certain date. With Rebol I can get
>now/time, now/date, etc. Is there an easy way to get the same type of value
>that the Perl time() function returns? I seem to have problems multiplying
>what returns from now with integer or decimal data types, like in a payroll
>calculation where hours_worked * pay_rate = paycheck. Thanks in advance for
>your help.
>
>Rebol rules!
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