Re: Bookmarks documentation?

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Terminator wrote:

Can anybody point me to some documentation of the bookmarks.html file? I

Don't know of such documentation, but...

realize it's just plaintext HTML, but there are a few fields in the file
which I don't understand how to generate:

1) the ADD_DATE and LAST_VISIT field in the <A> and <H3> tags

I believe these two represent the time from epoch (off the top of my head, I think that's the time in seconds starting from Jan 1, 1970) - it's a base time measurement system used by POSIX.

Your system should have functions like time2posix(3) and posix2time(3) for proper conversions. The man page on my system says "[a time value] of 536457599 shall correspond to Wed Dec 31 23:59:59 GMT 1986"

      2) the ID field in the H3 tags

I don't know about these. It seems to be unique serial number applied to bookmark folders. Not sure how they're generated though.

      I just want to be able to write an Opera -> Mozilla
      bookmark converter for
      Unix/Linux (probably a Perl script, once I learn bit
      of Perl), since I

Perl is fairly easy to learn, especially if you have some programming background.

      I'm thinking/hoping this shouldn't be too hard to
      do...  :)

Nah, I don't think so either :-)

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