gettimeofday() get date and time	Function
	SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION PARAMETERS RETURN VALUES CONFORMANCE MULTITHREAD SAFETY LEVEL PORTING ISSUES AVAILABILITY SEE ALSO

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SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/time.h>

int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tp, void *tzp);

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DESCRIPTION

The gettimeofday() function gets the current time, expressed as seconds and microseconds since 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), January 1, 1970, and stores it in tp.

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PARAMETERS

tp 

Points to a timeval structure that is to hold the current time.

tzp 

Is unused, and should be null.

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RETURN VALUES

On success, gettimeofday() returns 0. On error, it returns -1 and sets errno to one of the following:

EFAULT 

tp is an invalid pointer.

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CONFORMANCE

UNIX 98.

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MULTITHREAD SAFETY LEVEL

MT-Safe.

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PORTING ISSUES

None.

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AVAILABILITY

PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
PTC MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers 64-Bit Edition
PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition

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SEE ALSO

Functions:

ctime(), ftime()

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