Dad Time Format

Dad uses the unix time_t time format to specify the validity periods. Conversion routines into and from a more readable format are given in dad: dadFtoTime and dadTimetoF). However there is a huge amount of unix function callable from C to handle this format (localtime, mktime, strftime, ctime, time ...). Have a look in the man pages.

Dad knows 3 special time_t constants:

  1. TIM_TILLEVER for +infinity.
  2. TIM_SINCEEVER for -infinity.
  3. TIM_NOW for the current time.
These can be used in the validity period fields or in calls like dadUpdate.html.
This page is maintained by Wolfgang Wander.