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I'm writing a program that will parse and print packet information from a tcpdump file.

One of the fields is the timestamp, which is in seconds.

The program is reading the timestamp into an unsigned int type.

I need to be able to convert the timestamp in seconds to a normal date/time form.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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see the functions in time.h, specifically localtime() or gmtime()

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I've tried. The biggest problem I'm having is that when I try to compile it, I get errors such as:

cannot convert ‘unsigned int*’ to ‘time_t*’

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So, just typecast it to time_t

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