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1 perry 1 TIME
2 !!!TIME
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 RETURN VALUE
7 ERRORS
8 NOTES
9 CONFORMING TO
10 SEE ALSO
11 ----
12 !!NAME
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15 time - get time in seconds
16 !!SYNOPSIS
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19 __#include __
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22 __time_t time(time_t *__''t''__);__
23 !!DESCRIPTION
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26 __time__ returns the time since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC,
27 January 1, 1970), measured in seconds.
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30 If ''t'' is non-NULL, the return value is also stored in
31 the memory pointed to by ''t''.
32 !!RETURN VALUE
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35 On success, the value of time in seconds since the Epoch is
36 returned. On error, ((time_t)-1) is returned, and
37 ''errno'' is set appropriately.
38 !!ERRORS
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41 __EFAULT__
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44 ''t'' points outside your accessible address
45 space.
46 !!NOTES
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49 POSIX.1 defines ''seconds since the Epoch'' as a value to
50 be interpreted as the number of seconds between a specified
51 time and the Epoch, according to a formula for conversion
52 from UTC equivalent to conversion on the na
53 ''
54 !!CONFORMING TO
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57 SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3
58 Under BSD 4.3, this call is obsoleted by
59 gettimeofday(2). POSIX does not specify any error
60 conditions.
61 !!SEE ALSO
62
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64 ctime(3), date(1), ftime(3),
65 gettimeofday(2)
66 ----
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