time(2)
NAME
time, ftime − get date and time
SYNTAX
long time(0)
long time(tloc)
long *tloc;
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/timeb.h>
long ftime(tp)
struct timeb *tp;
DESCRIPTION
The time system call returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds.
If tloc is nonnull, the return value is also stored in the place to which tloc points.
The ftime call fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as defined in <sys/timeb.h>:
struct timeb {
time_t time;
unsigned short millitm;
short timezone;
short dstflag;
};
The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds, up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval, the local timezone (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.
DIAGNOSTICS
The time call will fail if:
[EFAULT] The specified tloc points to an illegal address.
The ftime call will fail if:
[EFAULT] The specified tp points to an address outside the process’s allocated address space.
ASSEMBLER
(ftime = 35.)
sys ftime; bufptr
(time = 13.; obsolete call)
sys time
(time since 1970 in r0-r1)