Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:13:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: A question I should know the answer to... Message-ID: <199810022013.NAA16438@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com>
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>Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:44:30 -0400 (EDT) >From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> > In the gettimeofday() call; it returns a structure that has two >values. First, the number of seconds since 1970. The second field >is the number of microseconds. > Certainly, the number of microseconds since 1970 is larger than >an int... so; I take it this is the number of microseconds for >the current day... is that right? No; it's the number of microseconds since the first field changed. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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