1.\" $NetBSD: ftime.3,v 1.15 2010/03/22 21:55:39 joerg Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)ftime.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 31.\" 32.Dd June 4, 1993 33.Dt FTIME 3 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm ftime 37.Nd get date and time 38.Sh LIBRARY 39.Lb libcompat 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.In sys/types.h 42.In sys/timeb.h 43.Ft int 44.Fn ftime "struct timeb *tp" 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46.Bf -symbolic 47This interface is obsoleted by 48.Xr gettimeofday 2 . 49It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat. 50.Ef 51.Pp 52.Bf -symbolic 53Note: time zone information is no longer provided by this interface. 54See 55.Xr localtime 3 56for information on how to retrieve it. 57.Ef 58.Pp 59The 60.Fn ftime 61routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, 62as defined by 63.In sys/timeb.h : 64.Bd -literal -offset indent 65struct timeb { 66 time_t time; 67 unsigned short millitm; 68 short timezone; 69 short dstflag; 70}; 71.Ed 72.Pp 73The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds, 74up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval. 75The 76.Em timezone 77and 78.Em dstflag 79fields are provided for source compatibility, but are always zero. 80.Sh SEE ALSO 81.Xr gettimeofday 2 , 82.Xr settimeofday 2 , 83.Xr ctime 3 , 84.Xr localtime 3 , 85.Xr time 3 86.Sh HISTORY 87The 88.Fn ftime 89function appeared in 90.Bx 4.1 . 91