NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     ftime -- get date and time

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Compatibility Library (libcompat, -lcompat)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

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

     int
     ftime(struct timeb *tp);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     This interface is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).

     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 appropriate
 part of the year.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

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

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The ftime function appeared in 4.2BSD.


FreeBSD 5.2.1			 June 4, 1993			 FreeBSD 5.2.1