uuid_time - extract the time at which the UUID was created
SYNOPSIS
#include <uuid/uuid.h>
time_t uuid_time(uuid_t uu, struct timeval *ret_tv)
DESCRIPTION
The uuid_time function extracts the time at which the sup
plied UUID uu was created. Note that the UUID creation
time is encoded within the UUID, and this function can
only reasonably expect to extract the creation time for
UUIDs created with the uuid_generate(3) function. It may
or may not work with UUIDs created by OSF DCE uuidgen.
RETURN VALUES
The time at which the UUID was created, in seconds since
January 1, 1970 GMT (the epoch), is returned (see
time(2)). The time at which the UUID was created, in sec
onds and microseconds since the epoch, is also stored in
the location pointed to by ret_tv (see gettimeofday(2)).
AUTHOR
uuid_time was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2
filesystem utilties.
AVAILABILITY
uuid_time is part of libuuid from the e2fsprogs package
and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.
SEE ALSO
libuuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3),
uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3),
uuid_unparse(3)
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