1.\" $NetBSD: ftime.3,v 1.11 2002/02/07 07:00:35 ross 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)ftime.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 4, 1993 37.Dt FTIME 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm ftime 41.Nd get date and time 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libcompat 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/types.h\*[Gt] 46.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/timeb.h\*[Gt] 47.Ft int 48.Fn ftime "struct timeb *tp" 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50.Bf -symbolic 51This interface is obsoleted by 52.Xr gettimeofday 2 . 53It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat. 54.Ef 55.Pp 56.Bf -symbolic 57Note: time zone information is no longer provided by this interface. 58See 59.Xr localtime 3 60for information on how to retrieve it. 61.Ef 62.Pp 63The 64.Fn ftime 65routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, 66as defined by 67.Aq Pa sys/timeb.h : 68.Bd -literal -offset indent 69struct timeb { 70 time_t time; 71 unsigned short millitm; 72 short timezone; 73 short dstflag; 74}; 75.Ed 76.Pp 77The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds, 78up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval. The 79.Em timezone 80and 81.Em dstflag 82fields are provided for source compatibility, but are always zero. 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr gettimeofday 2 , 85.Xr settimeofday 2 , 86.Xr ctime 3 , 87.Xr localtime 3 , 88.Xr time 3 89.Sh HISTORY 90The 91.Fn ftime 92function appeared in 93.Bx 4.1 . 94