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GETTIMEOFDAY(2)          DragonFly System Calls Manual         GETTIMEOFDAY(2)


NAME

     gettimeofday, settimeofday - get/set date and time


LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)


SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/time.h>

     int
     gettimeofday(struct timeval *tp, struct timezone *tzp);

     int
     settimeofday(const struct timeval *tp, const struct timezone *tzp);


DESCRIPTION

     Note: The gettimeofday() and settimeofday() functions are obsolescent.
     Applications should use the clock_gettime() and clock_settime() functions
     instead.

     The system's notion of the current Greenwich time and the current time
     zone is obtained with the gettimeofday() call, and set with the
     settimeofday() call.  The time is expressed in seconds and microseconds
     since midnight (0 hour), January 1, 1970.  The resolution of the system
     clock is hardware dependent, and the time may be updated continuously or
     in "ticks".  If tp or tzp is NULL, the associated time information will
     not be returned or set.

     The structures pointed to by tp and tzp are defined in <sys/time.h> as:

     struct timeval {
             long    tv_sec;         /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
             long    tv_usec;        /* and microseconds */
     };

     struct timezone {
             int     tz_minuteswest; /* minutes west of Greenwich */
             int     tz_dsttime;     /* type of dst correction */
     };

     The timezone structure indicates the local time zone (measured in minutes
     of time westward from Greenwich), and a flag that, if nonzero, indicates
     that Daylight Saving time applies locally during the appropriate part of
     the year.

     Only the super-user may set the time of day or time zone.  If the system
     is running at securelevel >= 2 (see init(8)), the time may only be
     advanced or retarded by a maximum of one second.  This limitation is
     imposed to prevent a malicious super-user from setting arbitrary time
     stamps on files.  The system time can be adjusted backwards without
     restriction using the adjtime(2) system call even when the system is
     secure.


RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the
     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.


ERRORS

     The following error codes may be set in errno:

     [EFAULT]           An argument address referenced invalid memory.

     [EPERM]            A user other than the super-user attempted to set the
                        time.


SEE ALSO

     date(1), adjtime(2), ctime(3), clocks(7)


HISTORY

     The gettimeofday() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

DragonFly 5.5-DEVELOPMENT        June 17, 2019       DragonFly 5.5-DEVELOPMENT

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