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ftime(2)							      ftime(2)

NAME
       ftime - get date and time more precisely

SYNOPSIS
   Remarks
       This  facility  is  provided for backwards compatibility with Version 7
       systems.	 Either or should be used in new programs.

DESCRIPTION
       fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as defined by

	      /*
	       * Structure returned by ftime system call
	       */
	      struct timeb {
		  time_t	 time;
		  unsigned short millitm;
		  short		 timezone;
		  short		 dstflag;
	      };

       The structure contains the time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC  (Coordi‐
       nated  Universal	 Time),	 January  1,  1970, up to 1000 milliseconds of
       more-precise interval, the local timezone (measured in minutes of  time
       westward	 from  UTC),  and a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that Day‐
       light Saving time applies locally during the appropriate	 part  of  the
       year.   Consult	gettimeofday(2) for more details on the meaning of the
       timezone field.

       can fail for exactly the same reasons as gettimeofday(2).

WARNINGS
       The millisecond value usually has a granularity greater than one due to
       the resolution of the system clock.  Depending on any granularity (par‐
       ticularly a granularity of one) renders code non-portable.

SEE ALSO
       date(1), gettimeofday(2), stime(2), time(2), ctime(3C).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
								      ftime(2)

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