94 lines
3.0 KiB
Groff
94 lines
3.0 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: ftime.3,v 1.9 1999/07/02 15:16:40 simonb Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" are met:
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" @(#)ftime.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt FTIME 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ftime
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.Nd get date and time
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libcompat
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
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.Fd #include <sys/timeb.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn ftime "struct timeb *tp"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Bf -symbolic
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This interface is obsoleted by
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.Xr gettimeofday 2 .
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It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat.
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.Ef
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.Pp
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.Bf -symbolic
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Note: time zone information is no longer provided by this interface.
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See
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.Xr localtime 3
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for information on how to retrieve it.
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.Ef
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn ftime
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routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument,
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as defined by
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.Aq Pa sys/timeb.h :
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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struct timeb {
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time_t time;
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unsigned short millitm;
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short timezone;
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short dstflag;
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};
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds,
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up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval. The
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.Em timezone
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and
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.Em dstflag
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fields are provided for source compatibility, but are always zero.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
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.Xr settimeofday 2 ,
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.Xr ctime 3 ,
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.Xr localtime 3 ,
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.Xr time 3 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn ftime
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function appeared in
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.Bx 4.1 .
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