My mistake it was ASN1_TIME that is correct. But any way, I don't see a reason why I should not be able to convert it, if I don't care for milliseconds, time_t can represent times for up to 2038, so It should be ok to convert it to the time_t.
Any ideas, the ASN1_cmp_time does much more than what I need, because I will be comparing at least once a second (If I check the last time to be at least one second earlier.) And because they are all in my cache for hopefully lets say a year, why not convert it to time_t and just check it with > current_gmt_time ? Thanks Joe On 1/28/06, Dr. Stephen Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006, Joe Gluck wrote: > > > Thank you for all tour replies but the gettimeofday I already use, but > > it was not what I was asking in the original message. > > > > What I asked is how can I get the ASN1_integer into a time_t to be > > able to compare it with the current GMT time (which i can get with > > some system functions, on linux gettimeofday)? (See first message in > > thread) > > > > Actually you asked how to convert an ASN1_TIME to time_t. The answer in > general to that is "you can't" because an ASN1_TIME can express a wider range > of dates than a typical 32 bit time_t. > > If you want to compare an ASN1_TIME to the current time that's a different > thing entirely. What OpenSSL does is to convert the time_t into an ASN1_TIME > and compares the two ASN1_TIME structures. > > There is a function called X509_cmp_time() that does the conversion and > comparison. It can be fed either a pointer to a time_t with the time to > compare against or NULL which uses the current time. > > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage > OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. > Funding needed! Details on homepage. > Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]