Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:40:56 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [gettimeofday implementation ...] |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Subramanya Srinivas C wrote:
> > > Hi, > > I need to implement a routine similar to "gettimeofday" > of LINUX on VMS platform. > > If anybody has pointers to the implementation of > "gettimeofday" routine or the algorithm of it, please > mail me immediately. Prompt reply would be highly > appreciated. >
VMS has quadword time (already in microseconds). It should be easy to make a wrapper around the VMS library call. sys$gettim(&timeaddr); timeaddr is 64-bit time in microseconds.
gettimeofday uses struct timeval {long seconds, long microseconds}. The timezone is not handled by the kernel.
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