[ic] UNIX timestamp

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting Michael Goldfarb (mikeg@contactdesigns.com):
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm interfacing phpBB user database with an established IC userdb.  I
> need
> >to be able to update a field called "user_regdate" with an INT style
> UNIX
> >timestamp from within IC.  In PHP you just do this: time().  In IC, the
> >[time] tag doesn't seem to have a raw unix timestamp option.  How can I
> get
> >a UNIX "seconds from 1970" style timestamp in IC?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Russell
> 
> I have used this:
> [data session time]
> 
> I think that is what you are looking for.
> 
> This is covered at the bottom of this page:
> http://www.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=ictags04%2e17

There is also the non-portable [time]%s[/time], which doesn't work
in Solaris but does in Linux.

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