NAME

time, ftime − get date and time

SYNOPSIS

long time(0)

long time(tloc)
long ∗tloc;

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/timeb.h>
ftime(tp)
struct timeb ∗tp;

DESCRIPTION

These interfaces are obsoleted by gettimeofday(2). 

Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds. 

If tloc is nonnull, the return value is also stored in the place to which tloc points. 

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

/∗
 ∗ $Header: /smsa/bsd:include/sys/timeb.h:bsd  1.6  $
 ∗ $Source: /smsa/bsd:include/sys/timeb.h: $
 ∗
 ∗ Copyright (c) 1988 Acorn Computers Ltd., Cambridge, England
 ∗
 ∗/
/∗
 ∗ Copyright (c) 1982, 1986 Regents of the University of California.
 ∗ All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
 ∗ specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
 ∗
 ∗@(#)timeb.h 7.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/86
 ∗/
 #ifndef__sys_timeb_h
#define__sys_timeb_h
 /∗
 ∗ Structure returned by ftime system call
 ∗/
struct timeb
{
time_ttime;
unsigned short millitm;
shorttimezone;
shortdstflag;
};
 #endif/∗__sys_timeb_h∗/
 /∗ EOF timeb.h ∗/

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 appropriate part of the year. 

SEE ALSO

date(1), gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), ctime(3)

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  Revision 1.2 of 19/10/88