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TIME(9)			     OpenBSD Kernel Manual		       TIME(9)

NAME
     boottime, mono_time, runtime, time - system time variables

SYNOPSIS
     extern struct timeval boottime;
     extern volatile struct timeval mono_time;
     extern struct timeval runtime;
     extern volatile struct timeval time;

DESCRIPTION
     The time variable is the system's ``wall time'' clock.  It is set at boot
     by inittodr(9), and is updated by the settimeofday(2) system call and by
     periodic clock interrupts.

     The boottime variable holds the system boot time.	It is set from time at
     system boot, and is updated when the system time is adjusted with
     settimeofday(2).

     The runtime variable holds the time that the system switched to the
     current process.  It is set after each context switch, and is updated
     when the system time is adjusted with settimeofday(2).  Because runtime
     is used for system accounting, it is set with the high-resolution
     microtime(9) function, rather than being copied from time.

     The mono_time variable is a monotonically increasing system clock.	 It is
     set from time at boot, and is updated by the periodic timer interrupt.
     (It is not updated by settimeofday(2).)

     All of these variables contain times expressed in seconds and
     microseconds since midnight (0 hour), January 1, 1970.

     Clock interrupts should be blocked when reading or writing time or
     mono_time, because those variables are updated by hardclock(9).  Boottime
     and runtime may be read and written without special precautions.

SEE ALSO
     settimeofday(2), hardclock(9), hz(9), inittodr(9), microtime(9)

BUGS
     Runtime should not be updated when the system time is changed with
     settimeofday(2), because it is used for resource accounting.

     The notion of having a single runtime variable obviously won't be
     appropriate in multiprocessor systems.

OpenBSD 4.9			 May 31, 2007			   OpenBSD 4.9
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