pierre(at)kahuna(dot)versions(dot)com writes:
>   Perhaps I'm not sing hte correct datatype, but I'd like to be able to convert
> a timestamp over to an unsigned long to be used within C code and compare
> to the output of time().
extract(epoch from your_value_here)
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