ftime - return date and time


SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/timeb.h>

       int ftime(struct timeb *tp);


DESCRIPTION

       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  sec­
       onds,  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

       This function always returns 0.


BUGS

       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

       The ftime function appeared in 4.2BSD.


CONFORMING TO

       BSD 4.2


NOTE

       This call is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).


SEE ALSO

       time(2)


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