Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:01:35 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: What's a microsecond? Message-ID: <9938.935798495@monkeys.com>
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OK, so maybe this is dumb question, but I need to know.
The documentation for gettimeofday(2) says:
struct timeval {
long tv_sec; /* seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 */
long tv_usec; /* and microseconds */
};
Is that "microsecond" as in 1/1,000,000 seconds? Or is that "microsecond"
as in 1/2^20 seconds?
There _is_ a slight but significant difference.
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