date conversions

I'm porting some dynamic SQL code from another databases and need to
know how PostgreSQL handles this. I have looked at utils/date.h,
utils/datetime.h, and utils/timestamp.h but I don't understand which to
use or how. Can anyone help?

My database used 'timestamp without time zone'. My application's format
(how date-time will be passed in and out) is

typedef struct {
short year;
short month;
short day;
short hour;
short minute;
short second;
} DateStamp;

In Informix, for example, to convert between DateStamp and Informix
dtime_t I use (less input/error checking):

void
ds2dt( ds, dt )
DateStamp *ds;
dtime_t *dt;
{
char buf[26];

sprintf( buf, "%4.4hd-%2.2hd-%2.2hd %2.2hd:%2.2hd:%2.2hd",
ds->year, ds->month, ds->day,
ds->hour, ds->minute, ds->second );

dtcvasc( buf, dt );
}

/* and */

void
dt2ds( dt, ds )
dtime_t *dt;
DateStamp *ds;
{
char buf[26];

memset( (char *) ds, 0, sizeof *ds );

sscanf( buf, "%4hd-%2hd-%2hd %2hd:%2hd:%2hd",
&ds->year,
&ds->month,
&ds->day,
&ds->hour,
&ds->minute,
&ds->second );
}

What's the way to do this in PostgreSQL?
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