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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
       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 num‐
       ber of milliseconds since time seconds since the epoch, timezone is the
       local time zone measured in minutes of time west of Greenwich, and dst‐
       flag is a flag that, if non-zero, 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       This function is obsolete.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
       4.2BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

SEE ALSO
       gettimeofday(2), time(2)

Linux				  2001-12-14			      FTIME(3)
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