From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 13:14:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27773 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27768 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17753 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA16438; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:13:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810022013.NAA16438@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com, rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: A question I should know the answer to... In-Reply-To: <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:44:30 -0400 (EDT) >From: Thomas David Rivers > In the gettimeofday() call; it returns a structure that has two >values. First, the number of seconds since 1970. The second field >is the number of microseconds. > Certainly, the number of microseconds since 1970 is larger than >an int... so; I take it this is the number of microseconds for >the current day... is that right? No; it's the number of microseconds since the first field changed. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message