STIME(2,L)                  AIX Technical Reference                  STIME(2,L)



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stime



PURPOSE

Sets the time.

SYNTAX

int stime (tp)
time_t *tp;

DESCRIPTION

The stime system call sets the system's time and date.  The tp parameter points
to the time as measured in seconds from 00:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.  If the stime system call
fails, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERROR CONDITIONS

The stime system call fails if the following is true:

EFAULT  Invalid pointer to tp.

EPERM   The effective user ID of the calling process is not superuser.

RELATED INFORMATION

In this book:  "time."




















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