NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       ftime - return date and time

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       #include <sys/timeb.h>

       int ftime(struct timeb *tp);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       Return current date and time in tp, which is declared as following:

		 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.

RETURN VALUE    [Toc]    [Back]

       This function always returns 0.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

       Under  libc4  and libc5 the millitm field is meaningful.  But glibc2 is
       buggy and returns 0 there; glibc 2.1.1 is correct again.

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

       The ftime function appeared in 4.2BSD.

CONFORMING TO    [Toc]    [Back]

       BSD 4.2

NOTE    [Toc]    [Back]

       This call is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       time(2)



Linux				  1993-07-24			      FTIME(3)