1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)ftime.3 6.3 (Berkeley) 04/19/91 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt FTIME 3 10.Os BSD 4 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm ftime 13.Nd get date and time 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Fd #include <sys/types.h> 16.Fd #include <sys/timeb.h> 17.Ft struct timeb * 18.Fn ftime "struct timeb *tp" 19.Sh DESCRIPTION 20.Bf -symbolic 21This interface is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2). 22.Pp 23It is available from the compatibility library, libcompat. 24.Ef 25.Pp 26The 27.Fn ftime 28routine fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, 29as defined by 30.Aq Pa sys/timeb.h : 31.Bd -literal -offset indent 32/* 33 * Structure returned by ftime system call 34 */ 35struct timeb 36{ 37 time_t time; 38 unsigned short millitm; 39 short timezone; 40 short dstflag; 41}; 42.Ed 43.Pp 44The structure contains the time since the epoch in seconds, 45up to 1000 milliseconds of more-precise interval, 46the local time zone (measured in minutes of time westward from Greenwich), 47and a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that 48Daylight Saving time applies locally during the appropriate part of the year. 49.Sh SEE ALSO 50.Xr gettimeofday 2 , 51.Xr settimeofday 2 , 52.Xr time 2 , 53.Xr ctime 3 54.Sh HISTORY 55The 56.Nm 57function appeared in 58.Bx 4.2 . 59