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diff --git a/upstream/fedora-40/man3/ftime.3 b/upstream/fedora-40/man3/ftime.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7b78538 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/fedora-40/man3/ftime.3 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt +.\" (michael@moria.de) +.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 14:23:14 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified Sun Oct 18 17:31:43 1998 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.\" 2008-06-23, mtk, minor rewrites, added some details +.\" +.TH ftime 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.06" +.SH NAME +ftime \- return date and time +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B "#include <sys/timeb.h>" +.P +.BI "int ftime(struct timeb *" tp ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR NOTE : +This function is no longer provided by the GNU C library. +Use +.BR clock_gettime (2) +instead. +.P +This function returns the current time as seconds and milliseconds +since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). +The time is returned in +.IR tp , +which is declared as follows: +.P +.in +4n +.EX +struct timeb { + time_t time; + unsigned short millitm; + short timezone; + short dstflag; +}; +.EE +.in +.P +Here \fItime\fP is the number of seconds since the Epoch, +and \fImillitm\fP is the number of milliseconds since \fItime\fP +seconds since the Epoch. +The \fItimezone\fP field is the local timezone measured in minutes +of time west of Greenwich (with a negative value indicating minutes +east of Greenwich). +The \fIdstflag\fP field +is a flag that, if nonzero, indicates that Daylight Saving time +applies locally during the appropriate part of the year. +.P +POSIX.1-2001 says that the contents of the \fItimezone\fP and \fIdstflag\fP +fields are unspecified; avoid relying on them. +.SH RETURN VALUE +This function always returns 0. +(POSIX.1-2001 specifies, and some systems document, a \-1 error return.) +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR ftime () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +Removed in glibc 2.33. +4.2BSD, POSIX.1-2001. +Removed in POSIX.1-2008. +.P +This function is obsolete. +Don't use it. +If the time in seconds +suffices, +.BR time (2) +can be used; +.BR gettimeofday (2) +gives microseconds; +.BR clock_gettime (2) +gives nanoseconds but is not as widely available. +.SH BUGS +Early glibc2 is buggy and returns 0 in the +.I millitm +field; +glibc 2.1.1 is correct again. +.\" .SH HISTORY +.\" The +.\" .BR ftime () +.\" function appeared in 4.2BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR gettimeofday (2), +.BR time (2) |