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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 |
| 2 | .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. | |
| e7fd7fad | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" This module is believed to contain source code proprietary to AT&T. |
| 5 | .\" Use and redistribution is subject to the Berkeley Software License | |
| 6 | .\" Agreement and your Software Agreement with AT&T (Western Electric). | |
| ecee498b | 7 | .\" |
| ad787160 | 8 | .\" @(#)time.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 |
| e7fd7fad | 9 | .\" |
| ad787160 | 10 | .TH TIME 3F "June 5, 1993" |
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11 | .UC 5 |
| 12 | .SH NAME | |
| 13 | time, ctime, ltime, gmtime \- return system time | |
| 14 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 15 | .B integer function time() | |
| 16 | .sp 1 | |
| 17 | .B character*(*) function ctime (stime) | |
| 18 | .br | |
| 19 | .B integer stime | |
| 20 | .sp 1 | |
| 21 | .B subroutine ltime (stime, tarray) | |
| 22 | .br | |
| 23 | .B integer stime, tarray(9) | |
| 24 | .sp 1 | |
| 25 | .B subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray) | |
| 26 | .br | |
| 27 | .B integer stime, tarray(9) | |
| 28 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 29 | .I Time | |
| 30 | returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds. | |
| 31 | This is the value of the UNIX system clock. | |
| 32 | .PP | |
| 33 | .I Ctime | |
| 34 | converts a system time to a 24 character ASCII string. | |
| 35 | The format is described under | |
| 36 | .IR ctime (3). | |
| 37 | No 'newline' or NULL will be included. | |
| 38 | .PP | |
| 39 | .I Ltime | |
| 40 | and | |
| 41 | .I gmtime | |
| 42 | disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone | |
| 43 | or as GMT. | |
| 44 | The order and meaning of each element returned in | |
| 45 | .I tarray | |
| 46 | is described under | |
| 47 | .IR ctime (3). | |
| 48 | .SH FILES | |
| 49 | .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a | |
| 50 | .el /usr/lib/libU77.a | |
| 51 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 52 | ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F) |