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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man2/adjtime.2 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/adjtime.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/adjtime.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7d3aab8 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/adjtime.2 @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.25 2019/03/26 16:02:54 cheloha Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.5 1995/10/12 15:40:44 jtc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)adjtime.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2019 $ +.Dt ADJTIME 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm adjtime +.Nd correct the time to allow synchronization of the system clock +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/time.h +.Ft int +.Fn adjtime "const struct timeval *delta" "struct timeval *olddelta" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn adjtime +makes small adjustments to the system time, as returned by +.Xr gettimeofday 2 , +advancing or retarding it by the time specified by the timeval +.Fa delta . +If +.Fa delta +is negative, the clock is slowed down by incrementing it more slowly +than normal until the correction is complete. +If +.Fa delta +is positive, a larger increment than normal is used. +The skew used to perform the correction is generally a fraction of one percent. +Thus, the time is always a monotonically increasing function. +A time correction from an earlier call to +.Fn adjtime +may not be finished when +.Fn adjtime +is called again. +If +.Fa delta +is +.Dv NULL , +no adjustment is done. +If +.Fa olddelta +is +.Pf non- Dv NULL , +the number of microseconds still to be corrected from the earlier call +is stored into +.Pf * Fa olddelta . +Setting the time with +.Xr settimeofday 2 +cancels any in-progress time adjustment. +.Pp +This call may be used by time servers that synchronize the clocks +of computers in a local area network. +Such time servers would slow down the clocks of some machines +and speed up the clocks of others to bring them to the average network time. +.Pp +Only the superuser may adjust the time using the +.Fn adjtime +function. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn adjtime +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EFAULT +Either of the arguments point outside the process's allocated address space. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa delta +argument is +.Pf non- Dv NULL +and specifies a microsecond value less than zero or +greater than or equal to one million. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa delta +argument is +.Pf non- Dv NULL +and represents an adjustment greater than +.Dv INT64_MAX +microseconds or less than +.Dv INT64_MIN +microseconds. +.It Bq Er EPERM +The +.Fa delta +argument is +.Pf non- Dv NULL +and the process's effective user ID is not that of the superuser. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr date 1 , +.Xr adjfreq 2 , +.Xr gettimeofday 2 , +.Xr ntpd 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn adjtime +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.3 . +.Sh CAVEATS +Other operating systems restrict calling +.Fn adjtime +to the superuser and might not allow requesting the current +correction without specifying a new value. |
