How to convert timestamp in human readable form.

[Antonio Ospite]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:50:57 +0530
Shubham Shrivastava <shubham333vm at gmail.com> wrote:

> timestamp: 178452710056
[...]
> 
> this type of output i got from
> 
>       gst_structure_get_clock_time (s,"timestamp",&timestamp);
[...]
>    strptime("178452710056", "%s", &tm);

Two issues here:

1. the returned timestamp is relative to the structure field lifetime,
   it does not refer to the system time.
2. GstClockTime expresses time in nanoseconds, not seconds.

Try using
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Date-and-Time-Functions.html#g-get-real-time
and take care to convert units (g_get_real_time returns microseconds).

Ciao,
   Antonio

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