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FTIME(3)                NetBSD Library Functions Manual               FTIME(3)


NAME

     ftime -- get date and time


LIBRARY

     Compatibility Library (libcompat, -lcompat)


SYNOPSIS

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

     int
     ftime(struct timeb *tp);


DESCRIPTION

     This interface is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).  It is available from the
     compatibility library, libcompat.

     Note: time zone information is no longer provided by this interface.  See
     localtime(3) for information on how to retrieve it.

     The ftime() routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as
     defined by <sys/timeb.h>:

           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 timezone and dstflag fields
     are provided for source compatibility, but are always zero.


SEE ALSO

     gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), ctime(3), localtime(3), time(3)


HISTORY

     The ftime() function appeared in 4.1BSD.

NetBSD 11.99                     June 4, 1993                     NetBSD 11.99