centos man page for gettimeofday

GETTIMEOFDAY(3P)					     POSIX Programmer's Manual						  GETTIMEOFDAY(3P)

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       This  manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the correspond-
       ing Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME
       gettimeofday - get the date and time

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/time.h>

       int gettimeofday(struct timeval *restrict tp, void *restrict tzp);

DESCRIPTION
       The gettimeofday() function shall obtain the current time, expressed as seconds and microseconds since the  Epoch,  and	store  it  in  the
       timeval structure pointed to by tp. The resolution of the system clock is unspecified.

       If tzp is not a null pointer, the behavior is unspecified.

RETURN VALUE
       The gettimeofday() function shall return 0 and no value shall be reserved to indicate an error.

ERRORS
       No errors are defined.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES
       None.

APPLICATION USAGE
       None.

RATIONALE
       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       None.

SEE ALSO
       ctime(), ftime(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <sys/time.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical  and	Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE
       and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can  be  obtained
       online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

IEEE
/The Open Group						       2003							  GETTIMEOFDAY(3P)