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NAME
time - get time in seconds
SYNOPSIS
#include <time.h>
time_t time(time_t *t);
DESCRIPTION
time returns the time since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970),
measured in seconds.
If t is non-NULL, the return value is also stored in the memory
pointed to by t.
RETURN VALUE
On success, the value of time in seconds since the Epoch is returned.
On error, ((time_t)-1) is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EFAULT t points outside your accessible address space.
NOTES
POSIX.1 defines seconds since the Epoch as a value to be interpreted
as the number of seconds between a specified time and the Epoch,
according to a formula for conversion from UTC equivalent to conver-
sion on the naïve basis that leap seconds are ignored and all years
divisible by 4 are leap years. This value is not the same as the
actual number of seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of
leap seconds and because clocks are not required to be synchronised to
a standard reference. The intention is that the interpretation of
seconds since the Epoch values be consistent; see POSIX.1 Annex B
2.2.2 for further rationale.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3
Under BSD 4.3, this call is obsoleted by gettimeofday(2). POSIX does
not specify any error conditions.
SEE ALSO
ctime(3), date(1), ftime(3), gettimeofday(2)
Linux 2.0.30 1997-09-09 TIME(2)
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