[Zope] Epoch time use

[coder@kanga.nu]

How do I:

  a) Get the time in terms of seconds from the epoch (standard unix
     time_t ala 1970)?

  b) Translate a time_t value under Zope into human readable ala
     ctime() or DateTime?

I don't see that the DateTime class can do this per the DTML guide
and I have an external DB that relies on time_t based indexing.  Do
I really have to write an external method?

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