FTIME(3) UNIX Programmer’s Manual FTIME(3)

NAME
ftime - get date and time

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/timeb.h>

struct timeb *
ftime(struct timeb *tp)

DESCRIPTION
This interface is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).

It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat.

The ftime() routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as
defined by <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 appropri-
ate part of the year.

SEE ALSO
gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), time(2), ctime(3)

HISTORY
The ftime function appeared in 4.2BSD.

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