From: Jan Svitok Date: 2006-07-25T00:59:30+09:00 Subject: Re: How can I parse binary files? Q2: have look at Time.parse or ParseDate in stdlib. Keep in mind that it is reeeeeally slow, it does all sorts of computation (gcd for example), so if you need it, it helps to cache it's results, or compute offsets from a known date J. On 7/24/06, Fabio Vitale wrote: > Q2: how do I convert a date to seconds-since-1970?