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1.1       root        1: .TH TIME 3C "1 April 1983" 
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: time, ftime \- get date and time
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .nf
                      7: .B long time(0)
                      8: .PP
                      9: .B long time(tloc)
                     10: .B long *tloc;
                     11: .PP
                     12: .B #include <sys/types.h>
                     13: .B #include <sys/timeb.h>
                     14: .B ftime(tp)
                     15: .B struct timeb *tp;
                     16: .fi
                     17: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     18: .ft B
                     19: These interfaces are obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).
                     20: .ft R
                     21: .PP
                     22: .I Time
                     23: returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured
                     24: in seconds.
                     25: .PP
                     26: If
                     27: .I tloc
                     28: is nonnull,
                     29: the return value is also stored in the
                     30: place to which
                     31: .I tloc
                     32: points.
                     33: .PP
                     34: The
                     35: .I ftime
                     36: entry fills in a structure pointed to by its argument,
                     37: as defined by
                     38: .RI < sys/timeb.h >:
                     39: .PP
                     40: .ta .5i +\w'unsigned 'u
                     41: .nf
                     42: .so /usr/include/sys/timeb.h
                     43: .fi
                     44: .PP
                     45: The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds,
                     46: up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval,
                     47: the local time zone (measured in minutes of time westward from Greenwich),
                     48: and a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that
                     49: Daylight Saving time applies locally during the appropriate part of the year.
                     50: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     51: date(1), gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), ctime(3)

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