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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/man3/time.3 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/time.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/time.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..44ea3f33 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/time.3 @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: time.3,v 1.18 2021/12/11 13:34:38 tb Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information +.\" Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" 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. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 11 2021 $ +.Dt TIME 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm time +.Nd get time of day +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In time.h +.Ft time_t +.Fn time "time_t *now" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn time +function returns the number of seconds elapsed since +Jan 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC. +This value is also written to +.Fa now +unless +.Fa now +is +.Dv NULL . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +The +.Fn time +function is always successful, +and no return value is reserved to indicate an error. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr clock_gettime 2 , +.Xr gettimeofday 2 , +.Xr ctime 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn time +function conforms to +.St -p1003.1-2008 . +.Sh HISTORY +A +.Fn time +system call first appeared in +.At v1 . +That version counted time in sixtieths of a second with a 32-bit return value, +ensuring an integer overflow crisis every 2.26 years. +In +.At v6 +the granularity of the return value was reduced to whole seconds, +delaying the aforementioned crisis until 2038. +In +.Bx 4.1c +the function was moved out of the kernel into the C standard library and +reimplemented with +.Xr gettimeofday 2 . |
