| .TH TIME 3 |
| .SH NAME |
| time, nsec \- time in seconds and nanoseconds since epoch |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B #include <u.h> |
| .br |
| .B #include <libc.h> |
| .PP |
| .nf |
| .B |
| long time(long *tp) |
| .PP |
| .B |
| vlong nsec(void) |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| Both |
| .I time |
| and |
| .I nsec |
| return the time since the epoch 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970. |
| The return value of the former is in seconds and the latter in nanoseconds. |
| For |
| .IR time , |
| if |
| .I tp |
| is not zero then |
| .BI * tp |
| is also set to the answer. |
| .SH SOURCE |
| .B \*9/src/lib9/time.c |
| .SH DIAGNOSTICS |
| These functions set |
| .IR errstr . |
| .SH BUGS |
| To avoid name conflicts with the underlying system, |
| .I time |
| and |
| .I nsec |
| are preprocessor macros defined as |
| .I p9time |
| and |
| .IR p9nsec ; |
| see |
| .IR intro (3). |
