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+.\" $OpenBSD: time.3,v 1.18 2021/12/11 13:34:38 tb Exp $
+.\"
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+.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 .