FTIME(3)

NAME
ftime - get date and time

LIBRARY
libutil

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/timeb.h>
int
ftime(struct timeb *tp);

DESCRIPTION
This interface is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2).

The ftime() routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as defined by <sys/timeb.h>:

    /*
     * Structure returned by ftime system call
     */
    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 kernel no longer maintains the timezone and dstflag info, so 0 is always returned for these fields.

SEE ALSO
gettimeofday(2), settimeofday(2), ctime(3), time(3)

HISTORY
The ftime function appeared in AT&T UNIX.