redhat man page for ftime

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NAME
       ftime - return date and time

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/timeb.h>

       int ftime(struct timeb *tp);

DESCRIPTION
       Return current date and time in tp, which is declared as follows:

		 struct timeb {
		      time_t   time;
		      unsigned short millitm;
		      short    timezone;
		      short    dstflag;
		 };

       Here  time  is the number of seconds since the epoch, millitm is the number of milliseconds since time seconds since the epoch, timezone is
       the local time zone measured in minutes of time west of Greenwich, and dstflag is a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that  Daylight  Saving
       time applies locally during the appropriate part of the year.

       These days the contents of the timezone and dstflag fields are undefined.

RETURN VALUE
       This function always returns 0.

BUGS
       This  function  is  obsolete.  Don't  use  it.  If  the	time in seconds suffices, time(2) can be used; gettimeofday(2) gives microseconds;
       clock_gettime(3) gives nanoseconds but is not yet widely available.

       Under libc4 and libc5 the millitm field is meaningful.  But early glibc2 is buggy and returns 0 there; glibc 2.1.1 is correct again.

HISTORY
       The ftime() function appeared in 4.2BSD.

CONFORMING TO
       BSD 4.2, POSIX 1003.1-2001.

SEE ALSO
       gettimeofday(2), time(2)

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