NAME

ftime - get date and time

LIBRARY

Compatibility Library (libcompat, -lcompat)

SYNOPSIS



int ftime(struct timeb *tp)

DESCRIPTION

This interface is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2). It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat.

Note: time zone information is no longer provided by this interface. See localtime(3) for information on how to retrieve it.

The ftime() routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as defined by <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 timezone and dstflag fields are provided for source compatibility, but are always zero.

SEE ALSO

gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), ctime(3), localtime(3), time(3)

HISTORY

The ftime() function appeared in 4.1BSD.