_ftime - Store Current Time

Syntax

#include <sys\timeb.h>
#include <sys\types.h>
void _ftime(struct timeb *timeptr);

Description

• ftime gets the current time and stores it in the structure to which timeptr points. The <sys\timeb.h> include file contains the definition of the timeb structure. It contains four fields:

  time

  The time in seconds since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time, January 1, 1970.
  millitm
  The fraction of a second, in milliseconds.
  timezone
  The difference in minutes between Coordinated Universal Time and local time, going from east to west. _ftime sets the value of timezone from the value of the global variable _timezone.
  dstflag
  Nonzero if daylight saving time is currently in effect for the local time zone. For an explanation of how daylight saving time is determined, see tzset.
Returns

There is no return value.

Example Code

This example polls the system clock, converts the current time to a character string, prints the string, and saves the time data in the structure timebuffer.

#include <sys\types.h>#include <sys\timeb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(void)
{
   struct timeb timebuffer;

   _ftime(&timebuffer);
   printf("the time is %s\n", ctime(&(timebuffer.time)));
   return 0;

   /****************************************************************************
      The output should be similar to:

      the time is Thu May 16 16:08:17 1995
   ****************************************************************************/
}

Related Information

• asctime
  
• ctime
  
• gmtime
  
• localtime
  
• mktime
  
• time
  
• tzset

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