BSON_ITER_TIME_T(3)

🌸 BSON_ITER_TIME_T(3) — libbson, bestie edition 🌸

okay so this is from the libbson manual (yes, that libbson, the MongoDB C driver girlies know 💅), and today's main character is bson_iter_time_t(). it's short, it's sweet, it's giving "small function, huge responsibility". let's get into it 🫶

---

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

time_t
bson_iter_time_t (const bson_iter_t *iter);

literally that's the whole thing. one function, one argument, no cap 🔥

---

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• iter — a bson_iter_t. that's it. that's the parameter. it's an iterator, babe, you know the vibe 👑

---

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so bson_iter_time_t() shall return the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch, as contained in the BSON_TYPE_DATE_TIME element. ⏰✨

like… it reaches into your iterator, finds the date-time situation, and hands you back epoch seconds. no drama, no conversions you have to do yourself, just seconds since the UNIX epoch. the way that it just works 😭🫶

lowkey important: this is the date-time element we're talking about — BSON_TYPE_DATE_TIME — so make sure that's what your iterator is actually sitting on, iykyk 🙈

---

⭐ RETURNS ⭐

a time_t containing the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. that's the whole return value, and honestly? iconic. periodt. 💅

---

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

MongoDB, Inc — they wrote it, they shipped it, we stan 👑

---

🦋 COPYRIGHT 🦋

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. — yeah bestie, the copyright is doing the most with that "present", it's giving evergreen 🌸

---

and that's the page!! 🎀 this was libbson 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — go forth and convert your epochs, bestie, mwah 💜🧚