how to use fime( )

[KO kwang tae]

i would like to use ftime() function.

but , i don't know how to use..

do i make C program?

please help me...

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Seems so as the man pages says:

ftime() fills in a structure pointed to by its argument, as defined by :

/*
* Structure returned by ftime system call
*/
struct timeb {
time_t time;
unsigned short millitm;
short timezone;
short dstflag;
};

sks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Below is a simple program to give you number of seconds since January 1st , 1970

#include
main()
{
struct timeb mytime;
ftime(&mytime);
printf ("time in seconds since epoch is %d\n", mytime.time);
}

Look at the man page of ftime to get more information. There are three other members in this structure that you can use.

Remember time() is to be used instead of ftime() as it is for backward compatibility for older systems.

-Sri

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Time() returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC often called epoch seconds. A more useful function for most purposes is localtime which uses the epoch seconds as an argument. Easier than using C is to use Perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $seconds = time();
printf ("Epoch Seconds = %d\n",$seconds);
my($sec,$min,$hour,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime($seconds);

$year += 1900;
$mon += 1;

printf("Sec: %d Min: %d Hr: %d Month: %d\n",
$sec,$min,$hour,$mon);
printf("Yr: %d Wk Day: %d Yr Day: %d Is Dst? %d\n",
$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst);

[KO kwang tae]

could you tell me how to compile PERL?

thanks in advance!