ftime(3)                   Library Functions Manual                   ftime(3)

NAME
       ftime - return date and time

LIBRARY
       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/timeb.h>

       int ftime(struct timeb *tp);

DESCRIPTION
       NOTE: This function is no longer provided by the GNU C library.  Use
       clock_gettime(2) instead.

       This function returns the current time as seconds and milliseconds
       since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC).  The time is returned
       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, and millitm is the
       number of milliseconds since time seconds since the Epoch.  The
       timezone field is the local timezone measured in minutes of time west
       of Greenwich (with a negative value indicating minutes east of
       Greenwich).  The dstflag field is a flag that, if nonzero, indicates
       that Daylight Saving time applies locally during the appropriate part
       of the year.

       POSIX.1-2001 says that the contents of the timezone and dstflag fields
       are unspecified; avoid relying on them.

RETURN VALUE
       This function always returns 0.  (POSIX.1-2001 specifies, and some
       systems document, a -1 error return.)

ATTRIBUTES
       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).

       +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface                                   | Attribute     | Value   |
       +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+
       |ftime ()                                    | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +--------------------------------------------+---------------+---------+
STANDARDS
       None.

HISTORY
       Removed in glibc 2.33.  4.2BSD, POSIX.1-2001.  Removed in POSIX.1-2008.

       This function is obsolete.  Don't use it.  If the time in seconds
       suffices, time(2) can be used; gettimeofday(2) gives microseconds;
       clock_gettime(2) gives nanoseconds but is not as widely available.

BUGS
       Early glibc2 is buggy and returns 0 in the millitm field; glibc 2.1.1
       is correct again.

SEE ALSO
       gettimeofday(2), time(2)

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