how to convert datetime to unix timestamp in c?

Solution 1:

You could try a combination of strptime and mktime

struct tm tm;
time_t epoch;
if ( strptime(timestamp, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", &tm) != NULL )
  epoch = mktime(&tm);
else
  // badness

Solution 2:

Convert each part of the date/time into an integer to populate a struct tm, then convert that into a time_t using mktime.

Solution 3:

Here is a wired solution in c/pseudo code I just hacked together. Good luck!

char * runner = NULL;
char *string_orig = "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS";
time_t time = 0;
struct tm tmp;

use strstr(string_orig, "-") and atoi foreach

  tmp->tm_year .. 
  tmp->tm_mon  .. 
  tmp->tm_mday ..  
  tmp->tm_hour  .. 
  tmp->tm_min  .. 
  tmp->tm_sec .. 

with *runner as help

time = mktime(&tm)

Solution 4:

What about sscanf?

struct tm tmVar;
char *strVar = "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS";
time_t timeVar;
if(sscanf(strVar, "%d-%d-%d %d:%d:%d", &tm.tm_year, /* the other fields */)==6)
    timeVar = mktime(&tmVar);
else
    // bad format