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"What's it all about?"
Time Conversion is the first project my mentor had me do. It is actually two programs, one that takes a single command-line argument of a number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT and kicks out a human readable date. The other one works in the opposite way, you put in a human readable date in the format DD MONTH YYYY HH:MM:SS, for example 10 Sep 1988 10:10:10 and tells you the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT. Basically, it's just for my mentor to ensure that I know the language. For a project that seems so simple, it turned out to be shockingly hard, because <time.h> has some wierd functions in it. "What the hell is the point of having two programs like that!?" Well, to check one another.Update: so I finished the program completely, and it's been tested by my mentor and everything, but, he tested things I wasn't used to doing. That is namely, user interface and everything. Which basically means, I have to assume the user is an idiot and then prepare for everything that he's going to put in. It's kind of difficult, but I believe I have all the little bugs worked out. Download it and find out for yourself!
The source is well commented now because my mentor had me put comments in anywhere where it's not completely obvious. So if you download it, it should be able to make perfect sense to you, as long as you know the language and all that good stuff.
For more information on this project, you can check out the actual worksheet that my mentor gave me, complete with little notes that he and I wrote on the thing. Caution: That PDF is somewhere around 6 MB and will remain that size until I find out how to make PDF's smaller, so it's only recommended if you have a broadband connection.
"Well, how far are you on it?"
Time Conversion Project Status:Time Conversion is 100% complete.
Known Bugs:
» None! Yay!
"Fine, now download it!"
So I've interested you, huh? Wow, that's a shocker. I believe that this program should run right out of the box if you have windows, since it uses MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class). So knock your socks off kids!Time Converter: 18.8 KB