FTIME

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BSD mandoc
BSD 4

NAME

ftime - get date and time

SYNOPSIS

Fd #include <sys/types.h> Fd #include <sys/timeb.h> Ft int Fn ftime struct timeb *tp

DESCRIPTION

Bf -symbolic This interface is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2). It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat. Ef

The Fn ftime routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as defined by Aq Pa sys/timeb.h :

/*
 * Structure returned by ftime system call
 */
struct timeb
{
          time_t  time;
          unsigned short millitm;
          short   timezone;
          short   dstflag;
};

The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds, up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval, the local time zone (measured in minutes of time westward from Greenwich), and a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that Daylight Saving time applies locally during the appropriate part of the year.

HISTORY

The function appeared in BSD 4.2