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I need to generate a UNIX style data in Visual Basic. (6.0) What I know that this is the number of seconds since 1-1-1970, in a long word. I kind of managed to do this, but looks kind of jumble. And it is off by two hours!?
Can anybody show me what the most efficient way for such a function?

What I have is:

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  1. Public Function UnixDate(Tim) As String
  2. 'returns hex string, as Unix Style date (seconds since 1-1-1970)
  3.   UnixDate = Hex(((DateSerial(Year(Tim), Month(Tim), Day(Tim)) - DateSerial(1970, 1, 1)) * 24 * 60 * 60) + _
  4.                 (Hour(Tim) * 60 * 60) + (Minute(Tim) * 60) + (Second(Tim)))
  5. 'for some reasons time is 2 hours off. 
  6. End Function
  7.  
  8. 'So I could do this:
  9.  
  10.   debug.print UnixDate(now)
  11.   debug.print UnixData(#6/11/2007 10:30:00 PM#)
  12. 'etc
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