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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:14:56 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: A question I should know the answer to...
Message-ID:  <19981002151456.A6182@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com>; from "Thomas David Rivers" on Fri Oct  2 15:44:30 GMT 1998
References:  <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com>

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In the last episode (Oct 02), Thomas David Rivers said:
> 
> OK -
> 
>  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?

It's the number of microseconds for the current second.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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