Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:15:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: A question I should know the answer to... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981002131403.15828D-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com>
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microseconds into the current seconds.. it's the digits to the right of the decimal point. if they are > 1000000 it just means that the carry hasn't occured yet. (in some systems and situations this is possible, (but unusual)) On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > OK - > > 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? > > - Thanks - > - Dave R. - > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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