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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:00:39 +0100
From:      Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Change tar to GNU
Message-ID:  <20050218180039.GF61763@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <42162B5C.2070300@kientzle.com>
References:  <4214ED77.6000206@os.lv> <4214F2CB.8030506@alumni.rice.edu> <20050218104527.GB47973@ip.net.ua> <42162A99.7040805@kientzle.com> <42162B5C.2070300@kientzle.com>

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Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >Kaspars wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I have backup script build with tar and -newer options.
> >>on FreeBSD 5.3 not working and I found:
> >>$tar --version
> >>bsdtar 1.01.011, libarchive 1.01.013
> >>Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Tim Kientzle
> 
> --newer would be simple to add if I
> could crib some date/time parsing code.
> 
> Anyone know a good place to steal that from? ;-)

Everytime I had to do something similar, I found that the standard
strptime() and strftime() functions were doing the job perfectly.  Not
sure if that's advisable in your case though.

Hope that helps,
Maxime



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