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                                                                  time(2)



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        time                                                  System Call
        Get time.
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        SYNTAX

        #include <sys/types.h>

        time_t   time  (seconds)
        long *          seconds;


        PARAMETERS

        seconds        NULL or address of a longword to be set to the
                       current system time.


        DESCRIPTION

        Time returns the system's notion of the current Greenwich time as
        the system call's return value.

        If <seconds> is not NULL, the current time is also stored in the
        longword at the location specified by <seconds>.

        The time value returned is Greenwich time expressed in seconds
        since midnight January 1, 1970.


        ACCESS CONTROL

        None.


        RETURN VALUE

        <current time> Completed successfully.


        -1             An error occurred.  Errno is set to indicate the
                       error.


        EXCEPTIONS

        Errno may be set to one of the following error codes:





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        EFAULT         Time will fail if <seconds> points to an illegal
                       address.


        SEE ALSO

        The related manual section:  stime(2).















































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