<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">relatively simple to use. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Using the original email as an example:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">str_time = "10/05/2014 06:00:00"</div><div class="">time_format = "%N/%D/%Y %H:%M:%S” ;;; same codes as cd_string </div><div class="">time_format@units = "minutes since 2014-10-05 06:00:00”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">time = cd_inv_string(str_time, time_format)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>