ftime

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NAME
       ftime - return date and time

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/timeb.h>

       int ftime(struct timeb *tp);

DESCRIPTION
       Return current date and time 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, millitm is the
       number of milliseconds since time seconds since the epoch, timezone is
       the local time zone measured in minutes of time west of Greenwich, and
       dstflag is a flag that, if nonzero,  indicates  that  Daylight  Saving
       time applies locally during the appropriate part of the year.

       These  days  the contents of the timezone and dstflag fields are unde-
       fined.

RETURN VALUE
       This function always returns 0.

BUGS
       This function is obsolete.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(3) gives nanoseconds but is not yet widely available.

       Under libc4 and libc5 the millitm  field	 is  meaningful.   But	early
       glibc2 is buggy and returns 0 there; glibc 2.1.1 is correct again.

HISTORY
       The ftime() function appeared in 4.2BSD.

CONFORMING TO
       BSD 4.2, POSIX 1003.1-2001.

SEE ALSO
       gettimeofday(2), time(2)



Linux				  2001-12-14			     FTIME(3)