Many programming languages already have functions to handle converting date/time to a unix timestamp. For example:<br><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php">http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php</a><br>

<br>takes date/time assuming the local timezone and returns a unix timestamp that could be used with sched_api.<br><br>-- W<br>