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From: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Change tar to GNU
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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