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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