Refer to timeval(3) and only describe the legacy struct timezone here.

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.\" $NetBSD: gettimeofday.2,v 1.26 2009/01/16 10:52:07 drochner Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: gettimeofday.2,v 1.27 2010/05/18 07:14:18 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)gettimeofday.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 5/26/95
.\"
.Dd January 16, 2009
.Dd May 18, 2010
.Dt GETTIMEOFDAY 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ call.
The time is expressed in seconds and microseconds
since midnight (0 hour), January 1, 1970.
The resolution of the system clock is hardware dependent,
and the time may be updated continuously or in ``ticks.''
and the time may be updated continuously or in
.Dq ticks .
.Pp
If
.Fa tp
is NULL, the time will not be returned or set.
@ -76,15 +78,11 @@ The structures pointed to by
and
.Fa tzp
are defined in
.Ao Pa sys/time.h Ac
as:
.Pp
.Bd -literal
struct timeval {
time_t tv_sec; /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
suseconds_t tv_usec; /* and microseconds */
};
.In sys/time.h .
The first one is described in
.Xr timeval 3
and the latter legacy structure is defined as:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
struct timezone {
int tz_minuteswest; /* of Greenwich */
int tz_dsttime; /* type of dst correction to apply */
@ -123,8 +121,8 @@ system call, which is restricted to the super user.
.\" .Xr adjtime 2
.\" system call even when the system is secure.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
A 0 return value indicates that the call succeeded.
A \-1 return value indicates an error occurred, and in this
A return value 0 indicates that the call succeeded.
A return value \-1 indicates an error occurred, and in this
case an error code is stored into the global variable
.Va errno .
.Sh ERRORS