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Linux / Unix Command: ftime
Command Library

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 undefined.  

RETURN VALUE

This function always returns 0.  

SEE ALSO

gettimeofday(2), time(2)


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