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TIME_SECOND(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					    TIME_SECOND(9)

NAME
time_second, time_uptime, boottime -- system time variables SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h> extern time_t time_second; extern time_t time_uptime; #include <sys/kernel.h> extern struct timeval boottime; DESCRIPTION
The time_second variable is the system's ``wall time'' clock. It is set at boot by inittodr(9), and is updated periodically via timecounter(9) framework, and also updated by the settimeofday(2) system call. The time_uptime variable is a monotonically increasing system clock. It is set at boot, and is updated periodically. (It is not updated by settimeofday(2).) The boottime variable holds the system boot time. It is set at system boot, and is updated when the system time is adjusted with settimeofday(2). The variable may be read and written without special precautions. All of these variables contain times expressed in seconds and microseconds since midnight (0 hour), January 1, 1970. The bintime(9), getbintime(9), microtime(9), getmicrotime(9), nanotime(9), and getnanotime(9) functions can be used to get the current time more accurately and in an atomic manner. Similarly, the binuptime(9), getbinuptime(9), microuptime(9), getmicrouptime(9), nanouptime(9), and getnanouptime(9) functions can be used to get the time elapsed since boot more accurately and in an atomic manner. SEE ALSO
clock_settime(2), ntp_adjtime(2), timeval(3), hardclock(9), hz(9) BSD
March 13, 2008 BSD

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MICROTIME(9)						   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					      MICROTIME(9)

NAME
bintime, getbintime, microtime, getmicrotime, nanotime, getnanotime -- get the current time SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h> void bintime(struct bintime *bt); void getbintime(struct bintime *bt); void microtime(struct timeval *tv); void getmicrotime(struct timeval *tv); void nanotime(struct timespec *ts); void getnanotime(struct timespec *tsp); DESCRIPTION
The bintime() and getbintime() functions store the system time as a struct bintime at the addresses specified by bt. The microtime() and getmicrotime() functions perform the same utility, but record the time as a struct timeval instead. Similarly the nanotime() and getnanotime() functions store the time as a struct timespec. The structures are described in timeval(3). The bintime(), microtime(), and nanotime() functions always query the timecounter to return the current time as precisely as possible. Whereas getbintime(), getmicrotime(), and getnanotime() functions are abstractions which return a less precise, but faster to obtain, time. The intent of the getbintime(), getmicrotime(), and getnanotime() functions is to enforce the user's preference for timer accuracy versus execution time. They should be used where a precision of 1/HZ (e.g., 10 msec on a 100HZ machine, see hz(9)) is acceptable or where perfor- mance is priority. The system realtime clock is guaranteed to be monotonically increasing at all times. As such, all calls to these functions are guaranteed to return a system time greater than or equal to the system time returned in any previous calls. Comparable functions exist to retrieve the time elapsed since boot; see microuptime(9). SEE ALSO
settimeofday(2), bintime_add(9), inittodr(9), time_second(9), tvtohz(9) CODE REFERENCES
The implementation of the microtime() family of functions is in sys/kern/kern_tc.c as a part of the timecounter(9) framework. The implementation of the time counter sources used by the timecounter(9) is machine dependent, hence its location in the source code tree varies from architecture to architecture. AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Jeremy Cooper and Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>. BUGS
Despite the guarantee that the system realtime clock will always be monotonically increasing, it is always possible for the system clock to be manually reset by the system administrator to any date. BSD
June 8, 2010 BSD
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