Section (3) ftime
Name
ftime — return date and time
Synopsis
#include <sys/timeb.h>
int
ftime( |
struct timeb *tp) ; |
DESCRIPTION
This function returns the current time as seconds and
milliseconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
(UTC). The time is returned in tp
, which is declared as
follows:
struct timeb { time_t time
;unsigned short millitm
;short timezone
;short dstflag
;};
Here time
is the
number of seconds since the Epoch, and millitm
is the number of
milliseconds since time
seconds since the Epoch.
The timezone
field is
the local timezone measured in minutes of time west of
Greenwich (with a negative value indicating minutes east of
Greenwich). The dstflag
field is a flag that,
if nonzero, indicates that Daylight Saving time applies
locally during the appropriate part of the year.
POSIX.1-2001 says that the contents of the timezone
and dstflag
fields are unspecified;
avoid relying on them.
RETURN VALUE
This function always returns 0. (POSIX.1-2001 specifies, and some systems document, a −1 error return.)
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
ftime () |
Thread safety | MT-Safe |
CONFORMING TO
4.2BSD, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2008 removes the
specification of ftime
().
This function is obsolete. Don_zsingle_quotesz_t use it. If the time in seconds suffices, time(2) can be used; gettimeofday(2) gives microseconds; clock_gettime(2) gives nanoseconds but is not as widely available.
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