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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.
June 4, 1993 NetBSD 7.0
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