xref: /qemu/include/sysemu/rtc.h (revision 6e0dc9d2)
1 /*
2  * RTC configuration and clock read
3  *
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23  */
24 
25 #ifndef SYSEMU_RTC_H
26 #define SYSEMU_RTC_H
27 
28 /**
29  * qemu_get_timedate: Get the current RTC time
30  * @tm: struct tm to fill in with RTC time
31  * @offset: offset in seconds to adjust the RTC time by before
32  *          converting to struct tm format.
33  *
34  * This function fills in @tm with the current RTC time, as adjusted
35  * by @offset (for example, if @offset is 3600 then the returned time/date
36  * will be one hour further ahead than the current RTC time).
37  *
38  * The usual use is by RTC device models, which should call this function
39  * to find the time/date value that they should return to the guest
40  * when it reads the RTC registers.
41  *
42  * The behaviour of the clock whose value this function returns will
43  * depend on the -rtc command line option passed by the user.
44  */
45 void qemu_get_timedate(struct tm *tm, time_t offset);
46 
47 /**
48  * qemu_timedate_diff: Return difference between a struct tm and the RTC
49  * @tm: struct tm containing the date/time to compare against
50  *
51  * Returns the difference in seconds between the RTC clock time
52  * and the date/time specified in @tm. For example, if @tm specifies
53  * a timestamp one hour further ahead than the current RTC time
54  * then this function will return 3600.
55  */
56 time_t qemu_timedate_diff(struct tm *tm);
57 
58 #endif
59