From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 13:15:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28122 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:15:34 -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 NAA28108 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17778 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 13:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA06373; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:14:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:14:56 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: A question I should know the answer to... Message-ID: <19981002151456.A6182@emsphone.com> References: <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <199810021944.PAA01055@lakes.dignus.com>; from "Thomas David Rivers" on Fri Oct 2 15:44:30 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message