qemu/include/sysemu/rtc.h

/*
 * RTC configuration and clock read
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#ifndef SYSEMU_RTC_H
#define SYSEMU_RTC_H

/**
 * qemu_get_timedate: Get the current RTC time
 * @tm: struct tm to fill in with RTC time
 * @offset: offset in seconds to adjust the RTC time by before
 *          converting to struct tm format.
 *
 * This function fills in @tm with the current RTC time, as adjusted
 * by @offset (for example, if @offset is 3600 then the returned time/date
 * will be one hour further ahead than the current RTC time).
 *
 * The usual use is by RTC device models, which should call this function
 * to find the time/date value that they should return to the guest
 * when it reads the RTC registers.
 *
 * The behaviour of the clock whose value this function returns will
 * depend on the -rtc command line option passed by the user.
 */
void qemu_get_timedate(struct tm *tm, time_t offset);

/**
 * qemu_timedate_diff: Return difference between a struct tm and the RTC
 * @tm: struct tm containing the date/time to compare against
 *
 * Returns the difference in seconds between the RTC clock time
 * and the date/time specified in @tm. For example, if @tm specifies
 * a timestamp one hour further ahead than the current RTC time
 * then this function will return 3600.
 */
time_t qemu_timedate_diff(struct tm *tm);

#endif