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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)time.3c     6.1 (Berkeley) 5/9/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH TIME 3C "May 9, 1985" 
                      8: .UC 4
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: time, ftime \- get date and time
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .nf
                     13: .B long time(0)
                     14: .PP
                     15: .B long time(tloc)
                     16: .B long *tloc;
                     17: .PP
                     18: .B #include <sys/types.h>
                     19: .B #include <sys/timeb.h>
                     20: .B ftime(tp)
                     21: .B struct timeb *tp;
                     22: .fi
                     23: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     24: .ft B
                     25: These interfaces are obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).
                     26: .ft R
                     27: .PP
                     28: .I Time
                     29: returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured
                     30: in seconds.
                     31: .PP
                     32: If
                     33: .I tloc
                     34: is nonnull,
                     35: the return value is also stored in the
                     36: place to which
                     37: .I tloc
                     38: points.
                     39: .PP
                     40: The
                     41: .I ftime
                     42: entry fills in a structure pointed to by its argument,
                     43: as defined by
                     44: .RI < sys/timeb.h >:
                     45: .PP
                     46: .ta .5i +\w'unsigned 'u
                     47: .nf
                     48: .so /usr/include/sys/timeb.h
                     49: .fi
                     50: .PP
                     51: The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds,
                     52: up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval,
                     53: the local time zone (measured in minutes of time westward from Greenwich),
                     54: and a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that
                     55: Daylight Saving time applies locally during the appropriate part of the year.
                     56: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     57: date(1), gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), ctime(3)

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