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stime(3)						     Library Functions Manual							  stime(3)

Name
       stime - set time

Syntax
       int stime (tp)
       long *tp;

Description
       The system call sets the system's time and date.  The tp argument points to the value of time as measured in seconds from 00:00:00 GMT Jan-
       uary 1, 1970.

Return Values
       Upon successful completion, a value of zero (0) is returned.  Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

Diagnostics
       [EPERM]	      The effective user ID of the calling process is not the superuser.

See Also
       gettimeofday(2), time(3)

																	  stime(3)

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NAME
time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - return system time SYNOPSIS
integer function time() character*(*) function ctime (stime) integer stime subroutine ltime (stime, tarray) integer stime, tarray(9) subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray) integer stime, tarray(9) DESCRIPTION
Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds. This is the value of the UNIX system clock. Ctime converts a system time to a 24 character ASCII string. The format is described under ctime(3). No 'newline' or NULL will be included. Ltime and gmtime disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone or as GMT. The order and meaning of each element returned in tarray is described under ctime(3). FILES
/usr/lib/libU77.a SEE ALSO
ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F) 4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 TIME(3F)
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