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ftime(2)							System Calls Manual							  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 (Coordinated 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
       (particularly a granularity of one) renders code non-portable.

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

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
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