C#

Jeff Kissinger wrote:

the WebRequest class is instantiated like it's a regular class

Jeff Kissinger wrote:

but doesn't this defy the principle that you cannot instantiate abstract classes through it's syntax

Jeff Kissinger wrote:

If the underlying class that is being instantiated is the HttpWebRequest than shouldn't that only be allowed??

System.Object
   System.MarshalByRefObject
      System.Net.WebRequest
         System.Net.HttpWebRequest

jojoba2011 wrote:

which is pretty universal (i thought)

namespace PIEBALD.Lib.LibExt.UnixTime
{
    /**
    <summary>
        Library of extension methods that convert to and from UnixTime
    </summary>
    */
    public static partial class LibExt
    {
        private static readonly System.DateTime Epoch ;
        
        static LibExt
        (
        )
        {
            Epoch = new System.DateTime ( 1970 , 1 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0 ) ;
            
            return ;
        }
        
        public static int
        ToUnixTime
        (
            this System.DateTime Time
        )
        {
            return ( (int) ( Time - Epoch ).TotalSeconds ) ;
        }
        
        public static System.DateTime
        FromUnixTime
        (
            this int UnixTime
        )
        {
            return ( Epoch.AddSeconds ( UnixTime ) ) ;
        }
    }
}

public static long GetEpochTime()
{
    DateTime dtCurTime = DateTime.Now;
    DateTime dtEpochStartTime = Convert.ToDateTime("1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM");
    TimeSpan ts = dtCurTime.Subtract(dtEpochStartTime);

    long epochtime;
    epochtime = ((((((ts.Days * 24) + ts.Hours) * 60) + ts.Minutes) * 60) + ts.Seconds);
    return epochtime;
}

Console.WriteLine("Number of seconds since 1/1/1970 @ 12:00:00 AM: " + GetEpochTime());

Kristian Sixhoej
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