time.3 (689B)
1 .TH TIME 3 2 .SH NAME 3 time, nsec \- time in seconds and nanoseconds since epoch 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B #include <u.h> 6 .br 7 .B #include <libc.h> 8 .PP 9 .nf 10 .B 11 long time(long *tp) 12 .PP 13 .B 14 vlong nsec(void) 15 .SH DESCRIPTION 16 Both 17 .I time 18 and 19 .I nsec 20 return the time since the epoch 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970. 21 The return value of the former is in seconds and the latter in nanoseconds. 22 For 23 .IR time , 24 if 25 .I tp 26 is not zero then 27 .BI * tp 28 is also set to the answer. 29 .SH SOURCE 30 .B \*9/src/lib9/time.c 31 .SH DIAGNOSTICS 32 These functions set 33 .IR errstr . 34 .SH BUGS 35 To avoid name conflicts with the underlying system, 36 .I time 37 and 38 .I nsec 39 are preprocessor macros defined as 40 .I p9time 41 and 42 .IR p9nsec ; 43 see 44 .MR intro (3) .