NAME

ftime — get date and time

LIBRARY

System Utilities Library (libutil, -lutil)

SYNOPSIS

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

int
ftime(struct timeb *tp);

DESCRIPTION

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 kernel no longer maintains the timezone and dstflag info, so 0 is always returned for these fields.

SEE ALSO

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

HISTORY

The ftime function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.