Ns cookietime

NAME

ns_cookietime - Convert seconds to Netscape's cookie date format

SYNOPSIS

ns_cookietime time

DESCRIPTION

This command converts the time, specified as the number of seconds from 00:00:00 UTC Jan 1, 1970, to a string in Netscape's old cookie "Expires" date format (see RFC 2109 Sec 10.1.2).

CODE

NOTE: This command is not yet part of the standard core Tcl API for AOLserver.

 proc ns_cookietime {time} {
     regsub {, (\d+) (\S+) (\d+)} ns_httptime $time {, \1-\2-\3} string
     return $string
 }

EXAMPLES

   % ns_cookietime 0
   Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT

   % ns_cookietime 8675309
   Sat, 11-Apr-1970 09:48:29 GMT

SEE ALSO

ns_fmttime, ns_gmtime, ns_httptime, ns_localtime, ns_parsehttptime, ns_parsetime, ns_time

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