Convert string time into seconds?

[Victor Gavin]

In article <4760015 at hpirs.HP.COM> wk at hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone) writes:
>If you have ANSI C libraries, convert the yymmddhhmmss into a tm struct
>and then use mktime() to convert that into seconds since the epoch.
>
>Wayne

Is there an ANSI C/Posix/WhateverStandardYouCareToNominate function that will
convert from a time in a string (as produced by asctime()/ctime()) ?

[[I've always wanted one for those odd occasions, but have (up to now) been
able to do without]]

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