I think you have addressed part of what I am asking. Using you as a
sounding board - So if I read a ticket and create a log event
myhost.mydomain Maintenance window scheduled 200912090800 for 3600
seconds, would I need to parse the start time, and compare to now,
and use that delta in the
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If you use a time_t for your starting time, then mydeltatime is:
return ($1 - time)
...and if you are on Linux or have the GNU date utility installed, then
you can use /bin/date the as a core part of the parsing routine. For
example,
/bin/date -d '20091209 0800' +%s
is able to accept
