FTIME(3) Linux Programmer's Manual FTIME(3) NAME ftime - return date and time SYNOPSIS #include <sys/timeb.h> int ftime(struct timeb *tp); DESCRIPTION This function returns the current time as seconds and milliseconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). The time is returned in tp, which is declared as follows: struct timeb { time_t time; unsigned short millitm; short timezone; short dstflag; }; Here time is the number of seconds since the Epoch, and millitm is the number of milliseconds since time seconds since the Epoch. The time- zone field is the local timezone measured in minutes of time west of Greenwich (with a negative value indicating minutes east of Greenwich). The dstflag field is a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that Daylight Saving time applies locally during the appropriate part of the year. POSIX.1-2001 says that the contents of the timezone and dstflag fields are unspecified; avoid relying on them. RETURN VALUE This function always returns 0. (POSIX.1-2001 specifies, and some sys- tems document, a -1 error return.) ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). +----------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +----------+---------------+---------+ |ftime() | Thread safety | MT-Safe | +----------+---------------+---------+ CONFORMING TO 4.2BSD, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ftime(). This function is obsolete. Don't use it. If the time in seconds suf- fices, time(2) can be used; gettimeofday(2) gives microseconds; clock_gettime(2) gives nanoseconds but is not as widely available. BUGS Early glibc2 is buggy and returns 0 in the millitm field; glibc 2.1.1 is correct again. SEE ALSO gettimeofday(2), time(2) COLOPHON This page is part of release 4.10 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU 2015-03-02 FTIME(3) |